Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box Audiobook (Free)

This third edition of an international bestseller—over 2 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 33 languages—details how its powerful insights on motivation, conflict, and collaboration will benefit organizations as well as individuals.

Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become an international word-of-mouth phenomenon. Instead of tapering off, it sells more copies every year. The book’s central understanding—that the main element to leadership lies not really in about Management and Self-Deception: Getting away from the Box what we should do however in who we are—offers proven to have powerful implications not only for organizational leadership but in visitors’ personal lives aswell.

Management and Self-Deception uses an entertaining tale everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges at work and at home to expose the fascinating ways that we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own initiatives to achieve happiness and increase pleasure. We trap ourselves within a “container” of countless self-justification. Most of all, the book displays us the way out. Readers will quickly realize what millions already have learned—how to consistently utilize and act on the innate feeling 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 measure the in-the-box and out-of-the-box mindsets in yourself and in your company. It also carries a sample of Arbinger’s most recent bestseller, The Outward State of mind.