Recommendations for Future Research
I found a tremendous amount of literature on the subject of strategic leader self-awareness and self-deception. This paper provides some...
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. - Kierkegaard
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Deception of Others, Self-Deception, & Self-Awareness
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stepson0
- Feb 5, 2022
- 4 min
Recommendations for Discouraging Self-Deception in Strategic Leaders
This post presents my three strategic-level recommendations to an organization to help prevent self-deceptive practices in a strategic...
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stepson0
- Jan 29, 2022
- 3 min
Recommendations for Creating Self-Aware Strategic Leaders
This post presents my three strategic-level recommendations to an organization to help with self-aware strategic leader development....
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stepson0
- Jan 22, 2022
- 3 min
Findings
The next three posts present my findings and recommendations. These sections are based on my thoughts and analysis of my research into...
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stepson0
- Jan 15, 2022
- 5 min
Strategic Leader Self-Deception Enablers
Certain organizational attributes, intentional or not, can enable a leader to self-deceive. An organization that enables its strategic...
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stepson0
- Jan 8, 2022
- 5 min
Environments Conducive to Leader Self-Deception
Organizational environments don’t usually outwardly promote dishonesty, but the structure and culture of the organization could tacitly...
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stepson0
- Jan 1, 2022
- 4 min
Deception Detection
Evolutionarily speaking (and commercially speaking for that matter), people could have benefitted from committing deception. Humans are...
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stepson0
- Dec 25, 2021
- 5 min
Self-Deception Enhances Others-Deception
The target of deception can be a combination of two parties, the self and others. When the target is the self, this practitioner denies...
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stepson0
- Dec 18, 2021
- 4 min
The Negative Results of Self-Deception
There must be some dire consequences to self-deception if one logically concludes that it’s a bad thing. Avoiding the truth or outright...
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stepson0
- Dec 11, 2021
- 5 min
Inaccurate Estimation of Abilities Negatively Impacts Performance
A self-aware, strategic leader has a good sense of their strengths and weaknesses or is at least aware that they exist. They are...
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stepson0
- Dec 4, 2021
- 4 min
Psychological Numbing
It may seem contradictory to say that intentionally deceiving oneself by hiding the truth and preventing accurate information from...
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stepson0
- Nov 27, 2021
- 4 min
Ethical Fading
Self-deception can be costly, especially to a senior leader with so much depending on them to lead an organization. A leader who is...
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stepson0
- Nov 20, 2021
- 4 min
The Mental Toll of Self-Deception
A self-deceptive leader hides the truth from themselves to affect their relationships with colleagues. They also do it to protect...
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stepson0
- Nov 13, 2021
- 3 min
Blame
No one likes a finger-pointer, even if they’re right in deflecting blame for something gone wrong onto someone else. When teams are...
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stepson0
- Nov 6, 2021
- 4 min
The Self-Deception Process
One who lies to themselves must basically convince themselves that something that they know or suspect is not true, is in fact, true....
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stepson0
- Oct 30, 2021
- 5 min
The Evolutionary Value of Self-Deception
It might be hard to comprehend that self-deception has provided evolutionary value as a survival mechanism for the human species. Both...
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stepson0
- Oct 23, 2021
- 4 min
Leader Blind Spots
While it’s vital to examine the effects that self-deceiving leaders have on an organization, it is also of great importance to discuss...
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stepson0
- Oct 16, 2021
- 6 min
Self-Deception Strategies Bound in Information Processing
Self-deception in a leader is enabled less by confusing, ambiguous information and more by the person’s filtering of known information...
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stepson0
- Oct 9, 2021
- 5 min
Misrepresenting Reality to Deal with Conflicting Information
Self-deception involves distorting or misrepresenting the truth internally when that information does not match up with what the...
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stepson0
- Oct 2, 2021
- 5 min
Getting Away with Self-Deception
Deceiving oneself is similar to deceiving others. The lies and misrepresentations of information must be crafted to deceive an audience....
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