How Our Upbringing Shapes Our Ideas of Success

One of the things that continues to surprise me about executive coaching is how often conversations about work become conversations about family.

Clients rarely come in wanting to talk about their parents. They want to decide whether to take a promotion, how to navigate a difficult boss, become more effective leaders or determine why they’re burned out. Family history almost never makes the agenda. And yet, more often than not, that’s where we end up.

Not because their parents are an active problem, but because many of the assumptions shaping our professional lives were formed long before we ever had careers.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Fast Company.