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Leadership and Self-Deception is the first book to identify a single, underlying cause of every form of leadership failure. Through the story of Tom—a “shluck” in his manager’s words—readers discover that identifying and treating individual leadership problems as if they were separate and... read more

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It was two months ago to the day that I first entered the secluded campus-style headquarters of Zagrum Company to interview for a senior management position.

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Preface

Part I: Self-Deception and the "Box"
1. Bud
2. A Problem
3. Self-Deception
4. The Problem beneath Other Problems
5. Beneath Effective Leadership
6. The Deep Choice That Determines Influence
7. People or Objects
8. Doubt

Part II: How We Get in the Box
9. Kate
10. Questions
11. Self-Betrayal
12. Characteristics of Self-Betrayal
13. Life in the Box
14. Collusion
15. Box Focus
16. Box Problems

Part III: How We Get out of the Box
17. Lou
18. Leadership in the Box
19. Toward Being out of the Box
20. Dead Ends
21. The Way Out
22. Leadership out of the Box
23. Birth of a Leader
24. Another Chance

About THE ARBINGER INSTITUTE
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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. The Arbinger Institute (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Meyer & Leichty (Cover Artist)
  2. Marin Bookworks (Designer)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler
Country: San Francisco, CA, USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 1576750949
Page Count: 181

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: HD57.7 .L4315 2000
  • Dewey: 658.4/092

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