1st Edition

Lie-Ability How Leaders Build and Break Trust

By Alan Watkins, Simon Jones Copyright 2023
218 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Business success depends on the ability to build trust. Trusted brands succeed and sustain. Trusted leaders inspire followers, grow companies, revenues and futures. But sadly, deceit has infected business and become widespread. Far too many leaders now use their own "alternative facts", to mislead and misinform their customers, colleagues and communities. The skilfulness and ease with which some... Read more

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

Biography

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.