As an executive you clearly recognize that the organization within which you spend your time has a psychological and emotional culture that is the synergistic sum of all of the beliefs as well as psychological dynamics that all of the people in that organization bring in the door with them.

Such cultures often take on a life of their own despite the efforts of many to modify, change or manipulate them. The reason is that these organizational cultures often replay the early family dynamics of the individuals in them.

Such family patterns are not only not well understood by HR departments they are also very difficult to shift once they become entrenched in an organization.

What's more a given individual can have an enormous negative or positive effect on the organizational culture and therefore on the organization