1. June 8, 2011 “A true self can not deceive itself” -Rorty

2.  Course Administration ◦ Syllabus Change

3. Let’s Self-Discover!

4.  Email address – I will be using your UTA address so please activate or check it.  Keep track of your own points  Don’t procrastinate on reading  Assessments are all due Friday, January 28 th Don’t forget!  Don’t procrastinate about the LAP.

5. 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

6. To be reflective To be all about you

8. EMOTIONS THOUGHTS BELIEF SYSTEMS What people see What you feel What you think Generated from your value system

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

10.  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

11. To lie to oneself, to hold beliefs outside of awareness. -Sackeim (1983)

12. -Robert Trivers

13. What’s wrong with self-deception?

14. DECEPTIONSELF-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

15. 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 4 th century BC KNOW THYSELF …. (Bennis, 1989)

16.  It is the most difficult task any of us faces, it stay in a state of knowing ourselves.  To understand both our strengths and weaknesses.  To know what we want to do and why we want to do it.  The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, he knows his flaws as well as his assets and deals with them directly.  Lack of awareness, whether through neglect or arrogance is a major contributor to career derailment.  -McCall, 1998, & Bennis, 1989

17. -Pienaar, (2009) Self deception and self awareness: making the connection

18. MAKING THE CONNECTION

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

20.  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

21.  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.

22.  “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).

23.  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).

25.  GET INTO GROUPS OF 4 TO 5  EACH PERSON SHARE 2 THINGS FROM YOUR ASSIGNMENT THAT YOU WOULD LIKE.  ANY SURPRISES FROM YOUR ASSIGNMENT?