Leadership and SelfDeception, Fourth..., The Arbinger Institute
Leadership and SelfDeception, Fourth..., The Arbinger Institute
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Leadership and Self-Deception, Fourth Edition
The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Unleashing Results

Author: The Arbinger Institute

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 05/20/2025

Synopsis

With almost 3 million copies sold worldwide, this new edition of an enduring classic is the definitive guide to dramatically improve leadership effectiveness, transform personal and professional relationships, and unleash organizational results.

Significantly revised throughout, this edition includes updated stories, brand new content, and a practical group discussion guide.

Over two decades since first being published, Leadership and Self-Deception continues to help audiences discover and overcome the persistent lies that are at the heart of the people-related dysfunction that plagues relationships and hinders organizational results. Told through an engaging story, this book reveals the ways we blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage our efforts to achieve success and rebuild broken relationships. Completely rewritten throughout, this fourth edition features important updates:

● A broader cast of characters who resonate with a wide and diverse audience

● Updated stories and examples

● An individual study and group discussion guide to facilitate personal and team discoveries

● Practical guides to apply the tools on a personal, team, and organization-wide level

About the Arbinger Institute

The Arbinger Institute is a worldwide institute that helps organizations, families, individuals, and communities solve problems created by self-deception. The Institute is led internationally by Jim Ferrell, Duane Boyce, Paul Smith, and Terry Warner. Local managing directors guide Arbinger’s work in territories around the world. Headquartered in Woods Cross, Utah, Arbinger has international operations in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, India, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and Bermuda.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on April 04, 2013

Good principles, a good teaching tool for organizations, but painful to get through. I assume the story format is aimed to make the read easier to get through and understand, but instead it felt like a local TV commercial with a bad script. I would prefer that the narrator was straight, to-the-point......more

Goodreads review by Kim on February 17, 2008

I know a lot of people who really love this book. It takes complex ideas and presents them in an easy-to-follow format. Which is fine if you're 10 years old. I felt like it was dumbed-down and assumed the reader is less than intelligent. Despite its big print, simple sentences, and few pages, it was......more

Goodreads review by Eric on August 14, 2010

I read this book in one day...I just couldn't put it down. An excellent book on how to be a better person and leader. Really set well with my beliefs on building relationships which are the love of others versus love of self. I think I will buy this book for each of my adult children to read. Hopefu......more

Goodreads review by Kimmy on March 15, 2021

This book should be renamed "straight men learn how to be empathetic and not assholes to women, especially in the workplace". LOL, all the main characters in this book are men and are aggressive, patronizing, and downright cruel towards all the women in this book, and then the men learn how to be be......more

Goodreads review by Laura on March 24, 2010

READ THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW. I'm serious. I'm not really into management books, but this one was recommended to me by a friend and mentor who I respect immensely. She gave me her copy months and months ago, and boy do I wish I picked it up sooner. Firstly, this book is incredibly readable. Though it's abo......more

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