1 Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.

2 Constant dieting can be self-defeating.

3 Punishing the demonstrators is self-defeating because it only encourages further demonstrations.

4 In contrast, self-defeating organizations enjoy no such freedom.

5 Hope Steadman's self-defeating quest for perfection?

6 A smile is self-powering, a frown is self-defeating. Dr T.P.Chia 

7 Self-defeating organizations are, by definition, averse to the truth.

8 In self-defeating organizations,[] poor performance comes to resemble this sort of eternally perpetuating cycle.

9 When an organization repeatedly puts self-defeating behavior patterns into practice, it eventually develops a self-defeating character.

10 Caught in this dilemma, the self-defeating organization typically postpones the inevitable choice among unsavory alternatives as long as possible.

11 Other self-defeating organizations rely on insincere optimism and empty slogans to mask an inner sense of desperation.

12 To minimize how this price is perceived, the self-defeating organization can avail itself of any of the techniques described here.

13 The leaders of self-defeating organizations are well aware of this phenomenon; they depend upon it to justify their haphazard training practices.

14 Ultimately, though, the self-defeating organiza-tion ends up attributing its failures to some unalterable aspect of its character.

15 But within the context of a self-defeating organizational behavior system, minimizing serves a larger and more sinister purpose.

16 In this sense, the high-performance loop turns the self-defeating organizational behavior pattern on its head.

17 Members of a self-defeating organiza-tion are, as a result of prior negative experiences, inclined to believe the worst.

18 Self-defeating organizations are nothing if not adroit at minimizing the costs of their destructive or ineffectual actions.

19 Dishonesty is ultimately self-defeating.

20 The ongoing practice of self-defeating organizational behavior patterns leads ineluctably to the formation of what we call a self-defeating organizational character.

21 They learn to then shift from negative, self-defeating internal dialogue towards positive, more realistic, and confidence-building self-speech.

22 In the face of a self-defeating organizational behavior pattern, a person of this sort has little choice other than to fight.

23 Paying children too much attention when they misbehave can be self-defeating.

24 So there you have it: narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.

25 Or would these moves have made the parish more contentious, poisoned the nurturing atmosphere, and proved ultimately self-defeating?

26 For this reason, beyond a certain stage, any remedial measure to counteract gravity becomes self-defeating.

27 He is counseled by a sports psychologist who helps him interpret and banish negative, self-defeating feelings.

28 When a crisis or dilemma arises, such an organization will resort under duress to its customary self-defeating practices.

29 Flagrant disregard for the evidence freely available in libraries at home and abroad was self-defeating.

30 Finally, retroactive cost justification fails because it never takes into account the qualitative costs that self-defeating actions inflict on organizational performance.

31 But in a self-defeating organization, dysfunctional attitudes become tenets of belief for entire groups of individuals.

32 If it has to be backed up by close supervision and control a point may be reached where such activities are self-defeating.

33 This, in a nutshell, is how closed organizational systems become self-defeating.

34 Absorbing Costs Self-defeating techniques yield consequences that most organizations would just as soon not deal with.

35 But bear in mind that self-defeating organizations function according to their own peculiar form of behavioral logic.

36 It prevents an enterprise from falling into the self-defeating trap of rewarding one constituent group repeatedly, and repeatedly penalizing others.

37 Why do the retraining efforts of self-defeating organizations tend to create at least as many difficulties as they resolve?

38 Minimizing is the first technique a self-defeating organization uses to avoid responsibility for the costs of its counterproductive actions.

39 As a result of diminishing confidence and conflicting internal impulses[http://], the organization inevitably falls into patterns of self-defeating organizational behavior.

40 At this stage, the need to control war to prevent it becoming a tragic and self-defeating activity demanded strong action.

41 It would be absurd and self-defeating to ask poor families to pay the taxes needed to finance their welfare payments!

42 Statements like this confirmed our suspicions about self-defeating organizational behavior patterns.

43 The equal opportunities strategy is, the writers claim, likely to be self-defeating.

44 As this diagram suggests, a self-defeating organiza-tional behavior pattern is more than a single misguided strategy or reaction.

45 In nearly every way, false open-mindedness conforms to the pattern of a self-defeating organizational behavior.

46 In this sense, Keynes's General Theory may well be regarded as self-defeating in terms of its impact on political economy.

47 None the less, we must admit to grave reservations about what passes for training in the typical self-defeating organization.

48 Among certain kinds of self-defeating organiza-tions, we see a similar phenomenon at work.

49 It's time to end the self-defeating cycle of overeating and dieting.

50 Or did the threshold of success have to be put so low that it represented something self-defeating?

51 But this would rule out so many of our statements as insignificant that it would be self-defeating.

52 Attempts to stir up nationalistic feeling at such times are bound to be self-defeating.

53 Through the actions and attitudes of struggling individuals, the true costs of self-defeating organizational behavior are made manifest.

54 A pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.

55 Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.

56 That is the syndrome. It is self-defeating and self-sabotaging.

57 Kennedy handled the firestorm of outrage with self-defeating smugness.

58 Critics argue that the government's hand-to-mouth policymaking is self-defeating, and illustrates its general lack of planning.

59 Those who use self-defeating humor, making fun of themselves for the enjoyment of others, tend to maintain that hostility toward themselves even when alone.

60 Accordingly, saving is self-defeating, as a loss in income will disallow individuals to save over the long-run.

61 One is a reasonable response to a challenging market. The other is a self-defeating trade-off.

62 Targeting a specific mortgage rate probably would be self-defeating, the official said, because they wouldn't know how much they'd need to get a specific rate.

63 Austerity is self-defeating: when everyone tries to pay down debt at the same time, the result is depression and deflation, and debt problems grow even worse.

64 A massive educational campaign is the only thing conceivable at the moment that can help; to argue that this campaign is difficult, expensive and therefore impossible would be quite self-defeating.

65 By practicing these agreements, we can chip away at all the self-defeating beliefs we've created within us. We can recover our personal freedom.

66 The lesson of the Great Depression and World War II for Americans was that isolationism was self-defeating.

67 Talking to your doctor about your pain might therefore be self-defeating claims the researchers at Jena University in Germany as it stimulates a part of the brain known as the "pain matrix".

68 The US is the only country in the hemisphere to not have diplomatic ties with Havana,[] a position many critics consider anachronistic and self-defeating.

69 Once this is established in your thoughts/mind, the negative view of self would revolve around every sphere of your life, producing faulty assumptions and an ongoing self-defeating behavior.

70 Arbitrary limitations on our ability to access skill sets from across the globe are clearly self-defeating.

71 By practicing these agreements, we can chip away at all the self-defeating beliefs we've created within us.

72 For now, however, much of China's recent bluster turned out to be self-defeating.