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Book Review: Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box

Written by the Arbinger Institute

Topic: LeadershipPublished April 16, 2008
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This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Leadership. Leadership Skills are the tools and traits acquired to facilitate guiding or a directing a group, most commonly toward a shared goal. Todd McDonald is the Official Guide to Leadership. Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box, by the Arbinger Institute, is a valuable resource for people interested in Self Leadership and it is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

In this ground-breaking book, a leading think tank on management training identifies self-deception as a key cause of leadership failure and shows leaders how to avoid the trap and use the skills and techniques necessary for success. Highly recommended by Steven Covey of "Seven Habits" fame.

The Arbinger Institute is a scholarly consortium and management training and consulting firm. It comprises scholars, business leaders, and professionals who apply their experience and talents to writing about the sweeping implications of overcoming self-deception for all aspects of organizational, community, and family life.

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This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Leadership. Leadership Skills are the tools and traits acquired to facilitate guiding or a directing a group, most commonly toward a shared goal. The Official Guide to Leadership is Todd McDonald.

Todd McDonald has been in the human resource and training industry for over 20 years. He served as Executive Vice President for American Media Inc., where he worked for 10 years. In his tenure with AMI, he worked in multiple capacities including management of the product development, human resource, training, marketing, and sales areas. In 1999, Todd left AMI and founded ATW Training & Consulting.

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