Reddit reviews Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
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Leadership and self deception is a business, strategy, and management guide written by the arbinger institute.this book is an international bestseller that became has a phenomenon through word-of-mouth since it was first published over a decade ago.In fact, instead of sales slowing down, it grew every year since 2004 compared to the statistics in the first four years of publication. The book essentially offers one insight, which is that the key to leadership lies not in what we do, but in who we are. This mantra has been known to help people with their organisational skills, leadership, as well as their personal lives.this book has been revised to make sure that it is more compelling and readable.
This is a better book
(Leadership and Self Deception)
It covers everything on this list but the problem with "How To Win Friends and Influence People" is that there's so many steps and lists to remember that it's easy to forget and fall back into old habits.
Leadership and Self Deception, instead, changes your fundamental mindset and outlook towards other people in such a simple but powerful way that you don't have to remember lists and steps, but the proper behavior and proper treatment of others flows naturally once your mindset changes.
Research Emotional Intelligence.
I had to do this for my last job and it had pretty good tips.
Also I recommend buying this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Self-Deception-Getting-Out-Box/dp/1576759776
Great book and good to read every few months.
> How many comments do you end up reviewing in a day?
There are two ways to read this - if you mean how many of the total content posted per day gets a mod's eyes on it, I'd say maybe 5-10% of the posts/comments per day (which I'm not supposed to share, sorry). Users are really good about reporting, so I don't see this as a weakness or something that can ever be reasonably increased.
If you mean how many reports we end up clearing a day.. I'd say more than 10, less than 100. If I had to split up our reports into "crap", "understandable but invalid", and "valid", it's about an even split between the three.
>Your sub is topic constrained?
Yes, by virtue of being a meta subreddit. If it's not:
..then it can't be posted there. We only have 11 rules, which is more like 9 since one is the same concept (don't brigade) split into incoming and outgoing, and one is a restating of the statewide policy on violence.
>Is it relatively easy to figure out what is within the context and what is shit posting pretty quick?
The title rules make shitposting (posts) infeasible for the most part. Top level content must be either a direct or archive link to something on reddit, it must include a direct quote from the content being linked to, and it must include a score. There's not much room for shenanigans there.
There are shitposting comments, but barring organized brigades, these wind up downvoted and invisible relatively fast.
>Recruiting mods and getting more people to wade through stuff is hard. WORSE when its politically charged because then the level of additional drama, doxxing and more puts capable people off of the role.
That's true, but I have to thank the rest of the team (I think I'm the newest mod, added last year) for keeping a really great atmosphere in the discord. We treat it as a fun hobby, not a job, and I think that really helps when the inevitable drama starts.
Doxxing is.. meh. I think precisely one of us uses a username here that we use elsewhere on the internet, and they're some kind of mad lad that literally doesn't give a fuck. There's the occasional reddit stalker, but it's nothing a gentle word of discouragement and judicious application of the block button (not to mention reporting them to the admins, which thankfully they've been good about dropping the hammer on) haven't been able to solve.
>Plus as the mod team expands, the issue with connecting to the team and being consistent becomes harder - unless you have good solid rules and foundations in making sure people get the memo.
Consistency goes back to the rules being mostly objective and minimizing the need for individual judgment calls. Every now and then there's something that slips through the cracks, and that's what the discord room we're all in is for.
It's when you do stuff like "no low-effort posts" (what the fuck is a "low effort post?") or "no trolling" (determining intent over text, yay) that you get into trouble. I'd go so far as to say defining those two concepts over a large enough team to moderate millions of subscribers isn't just hard, it's literally impossible. Bad, disruptive conduct that doesn't raise to the level of breaking the sitewide or subreddit rules is best dealt with by comment voting, IMO. Trolling is one of those things where people "know it when they see it", and so it's safe to rely on the wisdom of the crowds.
I also think that many subreddits don't even try to get enough mods. It's not like many have had an experiment where they add 20 mods to the team and then remove them all if it doesn't work out. They just sit there, with problems caused by lack of staffing, month after month after month, doing nothing, and then talk about how hard and stressful their job is as a result.
>The defaults have some serious lifting going on behind the scenes from what I know.
Not to name any names here or anything, but the one thing I hear often from very casual reddit users, even in real life, is that the site becomes a lot better once the defaults are unsubscribed.
I think whatever they're doing doesn't work. Or at least, could work a lot better, but there's this ingrained, us-vs-them culture that prevents a lot of positive change from taking place. Mods on this site, generally, see users as an annoyance to be managed, like they're tramping around this well-manicured garden, rather than seeing them as co-participants in a community that sometimes make human mistakes. They're "in the box" towards their users.
Read leadership and self deception (https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Self-Deception-Getting-Out-Box/dp/1576759776)
I've found this book to be pretty decent "work" book.
Leadership and Self-Deception
http://amzn.com/1576759776
Leadership and Self Deception by The Arbinger Institute
Mindset is a book that has completely changed how people perceive self-improvement, and that's not an exaggeration. This book is extremely well-known and often referenced, and it's possible you know of it already. Probably in the top 3 most life-changing self-improvement books out there.
Leadership and Self-Deception is a very engaging read, and its goal is to help you see relationships with friends, coworkers and employees as they are, not how you think they are. It helps you "get outside of the box" that you see the world through, and stop the cycle of self-justification that many people have. Highly recommend reading it.
The Anatomy of Peace
Absolutely life changing. The book is about seeing people as people rather than as objects. Seems simple enough, but I promise you it will open your eyes to a whole new way of seeing people and interacting with them.
There's actually a sequel called Leadership and Self-Deception with goes a bit deeper into the concepts covered in the first and how to resolve them.
Both are not books you want to skip if you ever deal with people in any way, ever.