Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert
and the author of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss
Behavior and Thrive in Your Job,» says you don't have to be best friends with your manager, «but you can achieve
optimal creativity
and success if you
feel that you're liked, supported,
and respected by them.»
Frameworks for describing
optimal parenting derived from the general parenting typology literature (Baumrind, 1991; Bean, Barber, & Crane, 2006),
and interpersonally - based approaches (Beveridge & Berg, 2007) suggest that an
optimal parenting style is characterized by high acceptance, firm control of the child's
behavior,
and low control of the child's thoughts
and feelings (i.e., low psychological control).