Leadership And Self-Deception: Getting Out Of The Box

Leadership And Self-Deception: Getting Out Of The Box
[Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Arbinger Institute (Author), William Dufris (Narrator)
Publication Date: November 30, 2004
ISBN 1-57270-444-6

Book Description:
When Tom Callum, a troubled executive struggling with his new job, is asked to spend
two days meeting with the executive vice president at the Zagrum Company, he unexpectedly
learns about self-deception. Self-deception results when someone acts contrary to
what they know is right. By ignoring that altruistic, internal voice, one triggers
a chain of events that ultimately result in destructive behavior.
The "disease" of self-deception underlies all leadership problems in today’s organizations.
However well intentioned they may be, leaders who deceive themselves always end
up undermining their own performance. This straightforward audio uses Tom Callum's
story to demonstrate that while knowing how to avoid this problem is central to
business relationships and success, awareness is equally important in one's personal
relationships.

Book Description:
Publication Date: January 5, 2010
Since it’s original publication nine years ago, Leadership and Self-Deception has
become an international word-of-mouth phenomenon. Rather than tapering off, it has
sold more copies each year since 2004 than it did in any of the first four years
after publication. 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. 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.