Book Titles

Denial
Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face – and What to Do About It

By Richard Tedlow

Year Published: 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1591843139
Categories: Denial, Failure, Leadership

57 Quotes Found

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Denial:

Leadership, it has been said, consists of using minimum problems to create maximum positive change.

161

Denial:

It is extraordinarily difficult to bring about change in a big company.

161

Denial:

How do people react when they find themselves facing a fact that is too terrible to be true?… They deny it.

175

Denial:

If something is too terrible to be true, then it cannot be true, because if it were, things would be too terrible.

176

Denial:

Denial is not a matter of intelligence. It is a matter of point of view.

178

Denial:

It is difficult to make a critical business decision when you are… emotionally entangled in the issue…

178

Denial:

…a different point of view can inoculate you from denial.

179

Denial:

In business, it is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

179

Denial:

…denial… is prevalent in the early stages of nearly every fundamental shift in business conditions.

180

Denial:

Denial occurs when push aside hard truths in favor of more palatable or convenient narratives.

183