Most of us can't stand it when we learned that a politician, our boss, or someone in an authoritative position has been lying to us. In fact, nothing boils our blood quicker. Over the years, I have been fairly hard on those who stand up at the podium and tell us they are better leaders, claiming we should vote for them due to their leadership skills. I often laugh and think that if someone has to tell us they are great leader, then obviously they haven't been showing us or leading by example in the first place.
Indeed, what is that famous quote when it comes to politicians; "how do you know when a politician is lying? Their lips are moving." It is a sad state of affairs that we have to think like this, but perhaps the reason we do is we've been led astray far too many times by those who call themselves leaders. Of course there is something worse than a leader deceiving all of us, and that would be a sociopath or psychopath that also deceives themselves.
Now then, along this line of thinking there is a very good book I'd like to recommend that you read. In fact, it is written in simple layman's terms that anyone can understand, and it is a book that I own in my personal library. The title of the book is;
"Leadership and Self Deception - Getting Out of the Box," by The Arbinger Institute, Berrett-Koehler Publishing, 2000, 181 pages, ISBN: 1-57675-094-9.
The book explains how people lock themselves and their mind in a box and fail to understand the people around them. It's almost as if they don't care, and that their job is to accomplish the task, mission, or objectives without regards to the people involved, or the team which is to make it all happen. This can get leaders into trouble. Often leaders believe they are better than everyone else when they are not, and even if they are, that doesn't give them any advantage treating people like crap.
Often the authoritative style leadership works good in the beginning, but it also creates yes-men, and people who do not give their full potential, or volunteer pertinent information, or their full experience and observations to the cause. In this case it is the leaders fault for using their own particular style without regards to the people involved.
Thus, I think you'd be wise to read the book, it's a quick read, not more than a day and a half, with plenty of time to think in between the chapters. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative eBook on Change Management. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/
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