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 enlarge | Author: The Arbinger Institute
Creator: Arbinger Institute
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  208 reviews
Sales Rank: 1289
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1576751740
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781576751749
ASIN: 1576751740
Publication Date: February 9, 2002
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 Among my top 10 favorite self-development books March 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a fantastic book! If you're not familiar with its core concepts, the book is bound (no pun intended) to make you stop and think about how you relate to others.
We have more control than we realize in our lives and in our relationships, and if we pay more attention to the thoughts we have that encourage us to help someone else, we will experience less heartache and more joy.
An encouraging, empowering, and potentially life-changing literary work, Leadership and Self Deception is a must read.
The book is one of my favorites, and I have read it many times. The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict a book by the same author group is also a great read and provides more background to the story found within Leadership and Self-Deception.
Average Joe rates a book March 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First, this book was very easy to read because it was all written using simple monologue or dialogue form - a plus for the average joe. The story created helps answer any questions you (the reader) might have because the book's main character is also trying to understand the rules of "getting of the box and often questions them.
Second, this idea of "the box" is applicable to all aspects of life, not just the business related. After reading this book, I called my girlfriend and apologized for something I blamed her for when really the problem was that I had deceived myself into believing that I was innocent (placing blame is a major topic in the book).
Lastly, and LEAST important... I feel that although this book's psychological focus is a major factor of mastering leadership, I don't think this book has as much to do with leadership than it does with strengthening trust/relationships and understanding self-deception. The book doesn't offer much more on other strategies for leadership than that. Should have been called: "Leadership without Self-Deception".
BUY IT AND READ IT IN ONE SWOOP FOR INSTANT ENLIGHTENMENT!
An honourable decision! February 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
In "Leadership and Self-deception", the people at the Arbinger Institute (authors) have created a book that's extremely thought provoking when it comes to leadership. Intended for anyone in a leadership situation, unlike many books on leadership, "Leadership and Self-deception" does not explain what leadership is. Rather, it encourages the reader to self reflect and decide for themselves what day-to-day thoughts lead to being a better leader. But even that description does the book an injustice.
The central and very simple message in the book is that we are all in what the authors call "the box". This happens when we are not leading effectively, merely thinking about ourselves and people as objects rather than people. To get "out of the box" takes a great deal of self discipline. As the authors suggest, when we have a choice to make about how we are going to treat someone else, we always know the right decision. We can honour the decision we know to be right, or we can reject it, thus deceiving ourselves. If we reject the more appropriate choice, we then look for reasons to support our self-deception. And so we stay "in the box". Getting out of the box means honouring the better alternative choice.
This is a great book. Written more in the form of a novel, I found myself compelled to keep reading to the end. I even found myself reacting differently to my own thoughts on how to interact with others.
I could not recommend this book more highly for anyone interested in becoming a better leader - in fact for anyone wishing to improve their people relationships.
Bob Selden, authorWhat To Do When You Become The Boss: How new managers become successful managers
 Nice theory, stupid story February 15, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was encouraged to read this by a company I work for. Although I find the theory to be a very good one and one that I will work to be aware of, the delivery was pitiful! It is deliberately put in story form, which I find very juvenile. The main character in the story can't understand the explanation and keeps saying so. That does not inspire confidence that anyone else will get it! I believe that the whole idea could have been summed up in two paragraphs, but then you couldn't sell a "book".
No problems. February 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book arrived right on schedule and was in in new condition as described so I was happy.
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