Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

By: The Arbinger Institute

Narrated by: Steve Carlson

This third edition of an international best-seller - more than two million copies sold worldwide and translated into 33 languages - details how its powerful insights on motivation, conflict, and collaboration can benefit organizations as well as individuals.

Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become an international word-of-mouth phenomenon. Rather than tapering off, it sells more copies every year. The guide's central insight - that the key to leadership lies not in what we do, but in who we are - has proven to have powerful implications not only for organizational leadership but in listeners’ personal lives as well.

Leadership and Self-Deception uses an entertaining story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges at work and at home to expose the fascinating ways we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve happiness and increase happiness. We trap ourselves in a “box” of endless self-justification.

Most importantly, the audiobook shows us the way out. Listeners will discover what millions already have learned - how to consistently tap into and act on their innate sense of what’s right, dramatically improving all of their relationships.

This third edition includes new research about the self-deception gap in organizations and the keys to closing this gap. The authors offer guidance for how to assess the in-the-box and out-of-the-box mind-sets in yourself and in your organization. It also includes a sample of Arbinger’s latest best-seller, The Outward Mindset.

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It has the ability to be Leadership Changing.

This book makes it easy to identify with the main character in the story and see how leaders should be better. It makes obvious cases that show how wrong so many people are when dealing with others. Our home, our business, and our communities could be so much better if everyone would read and apply what is taught in this book...

And there it is, the outward looking, face of self deception. If you are reading this book to change others it will not have a happy ending. If you read this book ready to discover that you are hiding in a box, deceived and blaming others for you lack of true leadership, then this book will change your life.

Life changing for the Leader you have within.

eye opening

this is the first time ibe listened to a book and ive finished it in 3 days.
love the narrative. I'd like him to narrate my life.
valueable for personal and professional growth.

Interesting Method

Readers will enjoy a different style of non-fiction teaching in the form of a fictionalized case study. You might identify with the main character being taught and will hopefully make the same realization he did.

Stunned! Please read this book!

Wow, my skull was on fire as I read how to actually really get outside of my self and help others, find joy in work, and move past the obstacles that have been holding me back. It was really me all along, in my box. Please do yourself a favor and listen to this book or read it, it will change your whole mindset and set you on a path for good. I’m so excited to apply these lessons in my work, life, and marriage. Thank you!

good but deep

I need to listen to this again. Maybe twice. I think I had to digest this more and I had a hard time fully grasping it, because this very book is for guys like me.

no-regret-read

The story felt a tad cheesy/heavy-handed at times, but overall it was engaging and eye-opening. I expect to recommend it to many others.

Subtly mind blowing!

This book gave me perfect insight into some of the ways that I have been successful as well as the times when I have not. Seeing outside of myself isn’t mysterious anymore. Essential for any leader of an organization or member of a family. Simple, yet powerful.

Great book!

Insightful. Practical. Wise. Helpful. One of the best books on relationships and leadership I have read in a while.

Another must read my the Arbinger Institute

I love this book and the way I have begun thinking after this book and The Anatomy of Peace. This book is easy to read or listen but invokes great self reflection and thought. I highly recommend!

Leadership must read book

Developing an organization requires a team who can work together and lead the vision in a right direction. The book brings key insight on developing key skill to grow self and the organization.