Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box

by The Arbinger Institute

“Self-deception—‘the box.’

“Inflate the value of things that justify my self-betrayal”

And so on. But these are the very things we’re not being when we have self-justifying images about them.”

“For example, certainly it’s good to think of others, but who am I thinking of when I’m thinking of myself as the sort of person who thinks of others?”