Problem Behaviors in the Workplace

Sylvia Lafair, a clinical psychologist, recently authored Don't Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success (Jossey-Bass). "Lafair's research shows that, much as we like to believe that our behavior is entirely rational and governed by our conscious mind, our thoughts and actions are often driven by the roles we learned in our families as children. And under pressure, we tend to revert to old patterns."