I found a tremendous amount of literature on the subject of strategic leader self-awareness and self-deception. This paper provides some...

This post presents my three strategic-level recommendations to an organization to help prevent self-deceptive practices in a strategic...

This post presents my three strategic-level recommendations to an organization to help with self-aware strategic leader development....

The next three posts present my findings and recommendations. These sections are based on my thoughts and analysis of my research into...

Certain organizational attributes, intentional or not, can enable a leader to self-deceive. An organization that enables its strategic...

Organizational environments don’t usually outwardly promote dishonesty, but the structure and culture of the organization could tacitly...

Evolutionarily speaking (and commercially speaking for that matter), people could have benefitted from committing deception. Humans are...

The target of deception can be a combination of two parties, the self and others. When the target is the self, this practitioner denies...

There must be some dire consequences to self-deception if one logically concludes that it’s a bad thing. Avoiding the truth or outright...

A self-aware, strategic leader has a good sense of their strengths and weaknesses or is at least aware that they exist. They are...

It may seem contradictory to say that intentionally deceiving oneself by hiding the truth and preventing accurate information from...

Self-deception can be costly, especially to a senior leader with so much depending on them to lead an organization. A leader who is...

A self-deceptive leader hides the truth from themselves to affect their relationships with colleagues. They also do it to protect...

No one likes a finger-pointer, even if they’re right in deflecting blame for something gone wrong onto someone else. When teams are...

One who lies to themselves must basically convince themselves that something that they know or suspect is not true, is in fact, true....

It might be hard to comprehend that self-deception has provided evolutionary value as a survival mechanism for the human species. Both...

While it’s vital to examine the effects that self-deceiving leaders have on an organization, it is also of great importance to discuss...

Self-deception in a leader is enabled less by confusing, ambiguous information and more by the person’s filtering of known information...

Self-deception involves distorting or misrepresenting the truth internally when that information does not match up with what the...

Deceiving oneself is similar to deceiving others. The lies and misrepresentations of information must be crafted to deceive an audience....