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:

A leader has to be profoundly committed to the truth to ferret out the facts that he or she must look in the face to make informed decisions. Such leaders are all too rare.

208

Denial:

Speaking truth to power is invariably praised and just as rarely practiced.

208

Denial:

…tell the truth. Doing so can help you to avoid denial.

213

Denial:

…you have to be able to see clearly what is in front of you and not allow yourself to be blinded by theory.

215

Denial:

Most of us cleave to the conventional even when it is wrong.

215

Denial:

Denial is simultaneously the safe and the wrong way to handle a problem. Suggesting the right and the risky way will get you into trouble.

216

Denial:

You will… never defeat denial, but you had better battle it.

216