Lie-Ability - How Leaders Build and Break Trust

List of contents

Part I: The 7 Deadly Lies 1. Free Markets Work 2. Our Primary Responsibility is to Shareholders 3. We Can’t Escape Quarterly Performance 4. Growth Means Financial Growth Only 5. It’s Not Our Job to Solve Society’s Problems 6. We Must Kill the Competition 7. Only Charismatic Experts Reach the Top Part II: The 7 Dark Arts of Deception 8. The First Dark Art of Deception – Distract 9. The Second Dark Art of Deception – Distort 10. The Third Dark Art of Deception – Disrupt 11. The Fourth Dark Art of Deception – Discredit 12. The Fifth Dark Art of Deception – Displace 13. The Sixth Dark Art of Deception – Doubt 14. The Seventh Dark Art of Deception – Discard Part III: Understanding the Nature of Truth 15. The Three Types of Truth 16. Truth and Development 17. Truth and Values 18. Truth and Beliefs 19. Truth and Identity Part IV: Reclaim the Truth 20. Three Steps to Truth

About the author

Alan Watkins is the CEO and Founder of Complete – a consultancy that specialises in developing exceptional leadership globally through individual and team development. Alan has written several books including Step Change: The Leader’s Journey (Routledge, 2022), Innovation Sucks! Time to Think Differently co-authored with Simon May (Routledge, 2021) and HR (R)Evolution: Change the Workplace, Change the World co-authored with Nick Dalton (Routledge, 2020).
Simon Jones is a lead consultant with Chime Group and VCCP Business, delivering strategic counsel in international relations, communications, crisis communications and reputation management for governments, corporations and individuals around the world. Over the last 20 years he has advised chief executives and chairs of global organisations, in addition to managing complex and global communications campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands.

Summary

For leaders and companies, business success depends on the ability to build trust. Trusted brands succeed and sustain. Or so we used to think. Lie-Ability is about the corruption of truth, the loss of trust and the death of transparency. And, perhaps more importantly, what can be done about it.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Jones, Alan Watkins, Alan Jones Watkins
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032303826
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230382-6
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Business & Economics / General, Public Relations, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Governance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Etiquette, Organizational theory & behaviour, Management: leadership & motivation, Sales & marketing management, Management: leadership and motivation, Organizational theory and behaviour, Sales and marketing management