Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (Second Edition)

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ISBN 10: 1458769550 / ISBN 13: 9781458769558

Published by -, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (Second Edition)
• Publisher: -
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1458769550
• ISBN 13: 9781458769558
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

NEW EXPANDED EDITION includes new chapter on how others have used the book in their organizations. For too long, the issue of selfdeception has been the realm of deepthinking philosophers, academics, and scholars working on the central questions of the human sciences. The public remains generally unaware of the issue. That would be fine except that selfdeception is so pervasive it touches every aspect of life. Touches is perhaps too gentle a word to describe its influence. Selfdeception actually determines ones experience in every aspect of life. The extent to which it does that, and in particular the extent to which it is the central issue in leadership, is the subject of this book.

Book Description

Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story about an executive facing challenges at work and at home to expose the precise psychological processes that conceal our true motivations and intentions from us and trap us in a “box” of endless self-justification. Most importantly, the book shows us the way out. The book’s central insight—that the key to leadership lays not in what we do, but in who we are—has proved to have powerful resonances not only for organizational leadership, but in readers’ personal lives as well.

This new edition has been revised throughout to make the story more readable and compelling. And drawing on the extensive correspondence they’re received over the years the authors have added a section that outlines the many ways that readers have been using this book.