Dark Psychology & Manipulation: Are You Unknowingly Using Them in Your Leadership?

As leaders, we have learned to watch out for people who manipulate and deceive. However, there is one person that we can't overlook in this monitoring process. That person is ourselves.

Ambitious influencers can easily fall into the trap of using manipulative, dark psychological tactics as we seek success and strive to reach our goals. If you don't think you are using them, it's worth a self-assessment of your leadership interactions. How you get things done. How you attempt to motivate.

It usually starts with self-deception and a lack of awareness. We naturally want to think our influence practices have completely pure intentions. We would never do anything that harms another person. But an interesting tension exists when you are tasked with getting people to do what you want them to do to reach a specified goal that you are responsible for reaching. And your job depends on it.

This is when we can lose sight of how to effectively influence and move people the right way. This becomes the point in which we hinder the balance of driving results and caring for people.

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Dark Psychology & Manipulation: Are You Unknowingly Using Them?