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

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Applicant interviewing and hiring: Ask job applicants to read; then discuss the concepts and how they apply to company practices and expectations. In contrast, an out-of-the-box leader’s words may be unpolished, but she still may motivate people and inspire loyalty.

And while it is really nice that the employer is going to think of me as a person, and not just a cog, it might also be nice if I had a living wage and, yeah, maybe some meaningful work too.Frankly I think everyone needs to read it, for the sake of all their relationships, at work, at home, and anywhere else. I hated this when I first read it college, but then I just re-read it again because it's short and I wanted a reminder. It is also a MUST read for leaders in business, especially if you are involved in Network Marketing. You might say that when we are self-deceived, we are trapped inside a box, the limits of which distort our world view so we see other people as objects of little importance.

As he walked back to the meeting room feeling frustrated, Tom encountered the company CEO, Kate Stenarude, who had succeeded Lou Herbert as president.When you try to say or do the right thing when you are self-deceived, you invite unproductive responses.

When you overlook other’s desires and virtues and overemphasize your own you prevent yourself from meeting their needs. However well intentioned they may be, leaders who deceive themselves always end up undermining their own performance. If you are willing to indulge yourself in its principles and proper application, you will enjoy this book tremendously for the foundational groundwork it lays.Once you’ve betrayed yourself, you feel guilty and try to justify it—for instance, by exaggerating other people's faults. Pull into the last parking space right in front of someone else, then rush into your building to make it look like you were in a hurry and needed the parking space. When you betray yourself, you seek to justify your action by distorting the situation and the people involved.

If we are mentally healthy and balanced, it is easy for us to feel empathy, because we see a reflection of ourselves in others around us. But it also negatively affects our own motivation and priorities, leading us to lose sight of what is really important. What the authors describe as "self-betrayal" is actually about how we think about, respond to and act toward others.

Leadership and Self Deception loses a lot of its potential impact, because it is longer than need be and not as clear as it could be. Self-deception—our tendency to see the world around us in a distorted way—is a common personal and organizational problem.