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Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.I strongly believe that we all need to crawl out of out boxes [1] and get a heart at peace [2] so that we have the strength to be vulnerable and innovative [3].1 https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Self-Deception-Getting-Out...
2 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1626564310/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_i...
3 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IIBAE5E/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=...
The writing style reminded me a lot of the book "Leadership and self-deception" (http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Self-Deception-Getting-out-...) in which a guy shows up at a new job and gets a day-long welcoming from the CEO, during which they slowly go through the idea of putting people in boxes and what to do about it.The ending of raganwald's post especially was similar in tone with "You belong here. We'll do great things together".
edit: "they slowly go through the idea of putting people in boxes and what to do about it" Hmm, this sounds kind of odd when you don't know the book I guess :) To clarify: in the book, you put people "in a box" basically when you have prejudices about them and look at things through that angle only. Or something like that.
⬐ NoneNone⬐ roguecoderIt seems very common among books targeted at CEO-types ("Be The Hero" being the one I read lately). I don't know what it is about managers that means they like stories more than explication, but it seems to be common perception.⬐ SpearchuckerStories can be useful. You could say [arbitrary example] that "I'm trustworthy", or you could tell a story of the time you were given privileged information and didn't use it for personal gain.The story is much more convincing, because it invokes empathy from the audience. The trick is to tell a good story. That means understanding plot, characters, tempo, your audience, and so on.
Not saying it's the be-all and end-all, but when done right stories have their place.