Leadership and self deception uses an entertaining story about an executive facing challenges at work and at home to expose the precise psychological processes that conceal our true motivations and intentions from us and trap us in a box of endless self justification most importantly the book shows us the way out. Leadership and self deception uses an entertaining story about an executive facing challenges at work and at home to expose the precise psychological processes that conceal our true motivations and intentions from us and trap us in a box of endless self justification most importantly the book shows us the way out the books central insight that the key to leadership lays not in . The core ideas in the book what the authors call getting in the box toward others and how to get out of the box are helpful however two things keep me from giving this book a higher rating first the story the authors use to introduce these core ideas to the reader could have been much shorter with higher impact. Since its original publication in 2000 leadership and self deception has become a word of mouth phenomenon its sales continue to increase year after year and the books popularity has gone global with editions now available in over twenty languages