690: How to Shift Behavior for Better Results, with Mitch Warner
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Mitch Warner: Leadership and Self-Deception
Mitch Warner is a managing partner of the Arbinger Institute. The Institute has authored three best-selling books and helps leaders transform their organizations by enabling the fundamental shift in mindset that leads to exceptional results. Now in its fourth edition, Leadership and Self-Deception: The Secret to Transforming Relationships & Unleashing Results*, is today one of the top fifty best-selling leadership books of all time.
Shifting behavior in a sustainable way requires us to change our mindset. In this conversation, Mitch and I explore how self-deception gets in our way and how we can take the first step by seeing others as people.
Key Points
- In many cases, we are the carriers of the very problems we are complaining about. We often resist this reality.
- We often assume we aren’t the cause of problems because of our good intentions.
- Mindset drives our behaviors and the effectiveness and influence of those behaviors.
- Seeing someone as less than a person causes us to see the world in a way that justifies our judgement.
- Too often, conflicts manifest as people provoking another’s behavior in order to justify themselves.
- Our own justification is an indicator that we may be wrong to begin with.
- Viewing others as either better or worse than ourselves creates justification that prevents awareness and change.
- Get outside of yourself by meeting to learn about them. If the relationship has been strained, consider meeting to give.
Resources Mentioned
- Leadership and Self-Deception: The Secret to Transforming Relationships & Unleashing Results* by The Arbinger Institute
- The Arbinger Institute
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| 0:00.0 | Shifting behavior in a sustainable way requires us to change our mindset. |
| 0:06.0 | In this episode, how self-deception gets in our way, |
| 0:10.0 | and how we can take the first step by seeing others as people. |
| 0:15.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 690. |
| 0:19.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:25.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:31.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm'm your host Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:35.8 | Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:37.3 | They're made and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful |
| 0:42.3 | conversations. |
| 0:43.4 | Of course, as leaders, so much of our work is about helping ourselves, others, and our |
| 0:50.0 | organizations to improve results. And that means how we can do a better job of not only |
| 0:56.0 | shifting our own behavior but also being able to shift the behavior of others as |
| 1:00.7 | so many of us have discovered how challenging that is, and even more so, when |
| 1:06.9 | we don't have our mindset in the right place. Today, a conversation about how we can do better in order to improve results for all of us. |
| 1:15.7 | I am so glad to welcome Mitch Warner to the show. |
| 1:19.0 | He is a managing partner of the Arbinger Institute. |
| 1:22.8 | The Arbinger Institute helps leaders transform their organizations by enabling the fundamental |
| 1:27.9 | shift in mindset that leads to exceptional results. |
| 1:31.6 | The Institute has authored three best-selling books. Leadership |
| 1:34.8 | and self-deception was originally published in 2000 and is today one of the top 50 best-selling |
| 1:40.4 | leadership books of all time. It's now in its fourth edition, |
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