June 8, 2011

“A true self can not deceive itself”-Rorty

Course Administration◦ Syllabus Change

Let’s Self-Discover!

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Keep track of your own points Don’t procrastinate on reading Assessments are all due Friday, January 28th

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The Arbinger Institute. (2002). Leadership and self-deception. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc..

“I found myself speechless. How could I know I had a problem if I didn’t even what the problem was?” p. 7

To be reflectiveTo be all about you

EMOTIONS

THOUGHTS

BELIEF SYSTEMS

What people see

What you feel

What you think

Generated from your value system

Young Red-necked Wallaby-allows it to blend in with its environment.

Distraction Camouflage Physical deception through the alterations

of appearances Dissimulation (concealing truth, half-truths) Slight of hand Propaganda Self-deception cealment. There is also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception

To lie to oneself, to hold beliefs outside of awareness.

-Sackeim (1983)

-Robert Trivers

What’s wrong with self-deception?

DECEPTION SELF-DECEPTION

Can be harmful to people

Has a disregard for the truth

Generally has a tone of manipulation

Leaves others feeling betrayed

Undermines another’s agency.

Can be harmful to people Has a disregard for the

truth Involves the manipulation

of oneself Undermines one’s agency Can become habitual with

a need to be perpetuated – a need to see oneself despite the evidence

The remaining columns of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columns_of_the_Temple_of_Apollo_at_Delphi,_Greece.jpeg

“Know Thyself”

Was inscribed on the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo circa de 4th century BC

KNOW THYSELF …. (Bennis, 1989)

-Pienaar, (2009)

Self deception and self awareness: making the connection

MAKING THE CONNECTION

“the need to know and the fear of knowing”-Abraham Maslow (1968)

Currently there are well over 15,000 published articles and books on leadership.

Focus is on skills, characteristics and behaviors of successful and effective leaders.

There are fewer resources identifying and describing ineffective leadership practices.

Hogan, 2001, according to their research, believe that between 50-75% of leaders are not performing well, they are ineffective.

Burke, 2006

Blakeley, 2007, it is more important to investigate the blind spots of leaders and those in authority as it will normally have more impact.

The higher the position, the more power a person wields the more significant and the blind spot(s) will have over the people involved and on the organization.

“Awareness should not be confused with introspection or insight; rather, ‘at its best, awareness is a continuous means for keeping up to date with one’s self…It is always there, like an underground stream, ready to be tapped into when needed, a refreshing and revitalizing experience’ “ (Polster & Polster, 1973, pp. 211-212).

Studies have been conducted (Greenwald, 1980, Alicke, 1985, Zuckerman, 1979, Munro, 2009) that indicate people generally over-estimate their standing on most positive characteristics and engage in self-serving attributional thinking.

When information threatens people’s positive views of themselves, they will seek to ignore, discredit or minimize the significance of the threatening information (Munro, 2009).

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