Self-Deception

And Then Came the Blame

Blame is a wonderful game (it must be, because we play it all the time!). Now, you just can’t say something like that; you need quotes to back it up. So here are five great quotes about blame (and I wouldn’t blame you if you memorized them because, sooner or later, they will come in handy). “To make a mistake is human, but to blame it on someone else, that’s even more human.” (Anonymous) “The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.” (Robert Bloch) “I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat.” (Yogi Berra) “There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.” (Samuel Beckett) “To err is human, to blame someone else is politics.” (Hubert H. Humphrey) In short, this post is all your fault. And if you want to

Are You Self-Deceived and “Stuck in the Box”?

Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Good books touch our hearts. Great books kick us in the butt, and phenomenal books punch us in the mouth. Leadership and Self-Deception is a phenomenal book. Now I’ve mentioned this book on many occasions, but according to Amazon sales, it still remains on the outside of Amazon’s top one hundred books. And that is just not good enough! And so allow me to give you four reasons why this book ought to find its way to the top of your reading list. First, while it sounds like a business book and talks a lot about business, it is not a business book. And while leadership is in the title and talks a lot about leading, it is not a leadership book. In fact, it is a novel about how we fail to love and