Successes or failures of employees in the workplace can be traced to what kind of father they had, a psychologist argues in a new book.
In “The Father Factor,” Stephan Poulter lists five styles of fathers — super-achieving, time bomb, passive, absent and compassionate/mentor — who have powerful influences on the careers of their sons and daughters.
Children of the “time-bomb” father, for example, who explodes in anger at his family, learn how to read people and their moods. Those intuitive abilities make them good at such jobs as personnel managers or negotiators, he writes.
But those same children may have trouble feeling safe and developing trust, said Poulter, a clinical psychologist who also works with adolescents in Los Angeles area schools.
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“Your Father May Impact Your Career”
It’s worth mentioning the fact that Poulter’s own father does not speak to him now that the book has been published.
I think one of the reasons that “time-bomb” children get good at reading people is that they become adept at reading faces and emotions and learning how to get out of the way–fast. (Having a father like this–I know)
*Is it true Poulter’s father no longer talks to him or was that tongue in cheek??
I THINK ONE OF THE REASON FEAR OF SEPERATION AND GENERATION GAP, LACK OF WORLD KNPWLEDGE ; AND NOT KNOWING MUCH ABOUT INFORMATION AGE AND GLOBALISATION IS THE PRINCIPLE CAUSE FOR THE INCIDENCE , I FACED
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