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Leadership and Self-Deception, 3rd Edition
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Leadership and Self-Deception, 3rd Edition

by The Institute Institute
September 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
4h 31m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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11 Self-Betrayal

“Now at first you’re going to think this is a silly story. It’s not even a workplace story. We’ll apply it to the workplace when we get a little more under our belts. Anyway, it’s just a simple little story—mundane even. But it illustrates well how we get in the box in the first place.

“One night a number of years ago, when David was just an infant, I was awakened by his wailing cries. He was probably four months old or so at the time. I remember glancing at the clock. It was around 1:00 AM. In the flash of that moment, I had an impression or a sense or a feeling—a thought of something I should do. It was this: ‘Get up and tend to David so that Nancy can sleep.’

“If you think about it, this sort of sense is very basic,” he continued. ...

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