Is your Boss a Co-worker, Butthead or Bully?

Is your boss a bully who needs to feel important and boosts his ego by micromanaging?

Maybe you work with someone who is so afraid of facing criticism that problems go unsolved because they don’t speak up. Then there’s the genius down the hall who has the answer to everything, but doesn’t do anything. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. According to professor Sylvia Lafair, whose book “Don’t Bring It To Work: Breaking The Family Patterns That Limit Success,” as much as we would like to believe that our behavior is entirely rational, our thoughts and actions may drive us to act as we did when we were a child. Lafair says that “under pressure we tend to revert to old patterns,” and who of us isn’t under pressure these days? Does that mean the country is full of a bunch of babies? Not necessarily. According to Lafair, employees fit into 13 personality types – including the persecutor, the avoider, the clown, the martyr and the rebel – and how they got that way. She says the successful ones are the ones whose success is built on self-knowledge and introspection. For a lot of stressed out managers, “Don’t Bring It To Work” might be a good place to start.

ps: Boss. NONE of this is about you..