Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED)

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In Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute, the authors explain how self-deception can derail personal relationships and keep organizations and leaders from achieving the results.

Probably, you will start coming up with reasons and excuses for why you shouldn’t be the one to get up and why it should be your spouse. Self-deception—our tendency to see the world around us in a distorted way—is a common personal and organizational problem.But because your worldview is distorted, the quality of the relationship will not improve through this change in behavior. Are you excited to reach your full potential by uncovering and destroying an aspect of your thinking that’s holding you back? Left unchecked, our self-deception determines how we experience the world and can drive away the most important people in our lives. A company can’t solve problems that are getting in the way of results if the people causing those problems are in the box, or unable to see how they’re responsible. For instance, given that the ultimate goal of an organisation is to increase productivity and value, that most likely today will be realised by increasing the precarious nature of employment for most people.

For me, I found it an interesting and fascinating approach to integrity and ethical based development on both a personal and leadership level.

Leadership And Self Deception (2000) is an eye-opening book that unveils the powerful effects of self-deception on our lives.