Lying by Leaders, Great Leaders and World Leaders
You are a witness to lying by leaders. You are dejected. You feel horrible. People are felicitating the leader who is a liar saying he is the most honest person. Person of integrity. A great benefactor of people. While you may feel dejected, sad and disillusioned, many people before had that same feeling. That is the nature of the world. There is lot of published material on lying by leaders and many leaders might have read that literature and must have decided that lying is the way to go ahead in real life. At some point in time truth may catch up with many persons. But leaders are living in the present. They are winning in the present. They are celebrating in the present. May be you don't know to keep you living what are sort of deceit has to be done by your defence forces. May be the leaders also indulge in lying many time to keep the society relatively stable.
What is the published material on lying by leaders?
Why Leaders Lie
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics is a 2011 book by the political scientist John Mearsheimer.
The book argues that leaders lie to foreign audiences as well as their own people because they think it is good for their country.
Lying and leadership
8 Jul 2016|Joseph S. Nye
In his book, When Presidents Lie, the historian Eric Alterman concludes that presidential lies ‘inevitably turn into monsters that strangle their creators’.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard and author of Is the American Century Over?
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/lying-and-leadership/
Nov 15, 2015
Is It OK For Leaders To Lie?
Brook Manville
Darwinian explanation. People like winning, “Alpha Leaders;” their champion performance trumps the occasional lie. “Who cares if Pete Rose denied his gambling? He was an all-time baseball great, deserves the Hall of Fame.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookmanville/2015/11/15/is-it-ok-for-leaders-to-lie
Nov 15, 2015
Is It OK For Leaders To Lie?
Brook Manville
Darwinian explanation. People like winning, “Alpha Leaders;” their champion performance trumps the occasional lie. “Who cares if Pete Rose denied his gambling? He was an all-time baseball great, deserves the Hall of Fame.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookmanville/2015/11/15/is-it-ok-for-leaders-to-lie
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