Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

By: The Arbinger Institute

Published January 1st 2002 by Berrett-Koehler Publishers (first published January 1st 2000)

Category: Business

Pages: 180 pages

ISBN: 9781576751749

Description:
The "disease" of self-deception (acting in ways contrary to what one knows is right) underlies all leadership problems in today's organizations, according to the premise of this work. However well intentioned they may be, leaders who deceive themselves always end up undermining their own performance.This straightforward book explains how leaders can discover their own self-deceptions and learn how to escape destructive patterns. The authors demonstrate that breaking out of these patterns leads to improved teamwork, commitment, trust, communication, motivation, and leadership.