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Article: Dealing with a `dinosaur brain' boss
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 5, 1989
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The boss is a beast, you say? Quite right, says Albert J.
Bernstein, the boss is a dinosaur.
At least, the psychologist-cum-author claims, the boss has a
dinosaur brain.
That particular affliction means the boss is someone who can be
irrational, emotional, easily enraged and controlling. In effect,
someone who is normal.
In a subordinate, that action elicits the reptile response: he
fights back.
"All people need to learn they have a dinosaur brain," that part
of us that reacts irrationally, Bernstein said last week while in
Chicago to promote his new book, Dinosaur Brains: Dealing With All
Those Impossible People at Work.
"The way to deal with impossible people is to deal with ...