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Book 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.

Table of Contents

  1. Copyright
    1. Dedication
  2. Praise for Leadership and Self-Deception
  3. Preface
    1. A Note about the Book
  4. I. Self-Deception and the “Box”
    1. 1. Bud
    2. 2. A Problem
    3. 3. Self-Deception
    4. 4. The Problem beneath Other Problems
    5. 5. Beneath Effective Leadership
    6. 6. The Deep Choice That Determines Influence
    7. 7. People or Objects
    8. 8. Doubt
  5. II. How We Get in the Box
    1. 9. Kate
    2. 10. Questions
    3. 11. Self-Betrayal
    4. 12. Characteristics of Self-Betrayal
    5. 13. Life in the Box
    6. 14. Collusion
    7. 15. Box Focus
    8. 16. Box Problems
  6. III. How We Get OUT of the Box
    1. 17. Lou
    2. 18. Leadership in the Box
    3. 19. Toward Being out of the Box
    4. 20. Dead Ends
    5. 21. The Way Out
    6. 22. Leadership out of the Box
    7. 23. Birth of a Leader
    8. 24. Another Chance
  7. About The Arbinger Institute