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Your Father May Impact Your Career

By John M. Grohol, PsyD
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How “Daddy” affects your job

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, …

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Your Father May Impact Your Career

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  1. It’s worth mentioning the fact that Poulter’s own father does not speak to him now that the book has been published.

  2. 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??

  3. 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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