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THE ALEXITHYMIC EXECUTIVE 77 tial hidden deep within them. Like the Tin Man, once he dis- covered that he had a heart, they will ...

78 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP Endnote Material for this chapter has been taken from two published sources: Kets de ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly ...

80 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP How, then, does one become an impostor? What do impostors want? Why do impostors beha ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME 81 with delusion, fi ghting windmills along the way. Then we have The Confi dence Man by Herman Melville ( ...

82 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP birthday. Aided by gray streaks in his hair and a belief that a uniform is the best p ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME 83 himself and to show them soon afterward how unworthy he was of such feeling ’ (p. 300). Abraham also po ...

84 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP need for self - betrayal, struck as she was by the discrepancy in their abilities, wh ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME 85 Teddy became familiar with role - playing and imposture. To use Finkel- stein ’ s (1974) words, ‘ [his] ...

86 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP and sister, unsure of his own identity, deprecating and disguising his own talents, C ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME 87 vincing himself of the truth of what he was saying at the time he said it ’ (p. 377). This is the portr ...

88 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP itself, in the fi nal year of the war, rather than relinquish power and admit defeat. ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME 89 And yet that very expectation brought out once again my emotional bond to Hitler ... My feelings of pit ...

90 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP acted out vicariously. In the family setting, mothers of future impostors may show of ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME 91 A corollary to this disturbance of the impostor ’ s sense of identity is a defi ciency in the acquisiti ...

92 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP susceptible in times of upheaval, when imposture can occur on a grand scale, feeding ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME 93 brothers in the family. Both the latter two are said to have died in the war with Israel. The father re ...

94 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP gained control over Fermenta, paying one Swedish crown for the shares. At that time, ...

THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME 95 planning to his actions than was probably the case, El - Sayed ‘ more or less fooled all of Swedish soc ...

96 REFLECTIONS ON CHARACTER AND LEADERSHIP boundaries between what was his and what was the company ’ s. He probably rationalize ...