Most definitions also required a strong community aspect, such as obsessed fans or ritualistic behavior.
Immature, self-obsessed and irreverent, Appropriate Behavior is a generation defining work.
Most pundits and (much more damagingly sinister) b-school administrators and faculty members are laying the blame for the disaster on the greed-obsessed, capitalism-revering, ethics-light behavior on the part of financial players, which the latter supposedly picked up while earning their MBAs.
The book's funniest characters are a geeky crime-scene team recruited to help Tallow: Scarly, short for Scarlatta, a trash-talking lesbian who pretends to be autistic to excuse her antisocial behavior, and her gadget-obsessed underling Bat, who eats so little that he resembles a sickly Dickensian child.
Even executives who would never have countenanced the kind of behavior that triggers Congressional hearings became too obsessed with managing their stock prices in the short term.
My mom mentioned my behavior in Maine—I had been argumentative, intense, obsessed with the loons.
Obsessed with kitchen reform, Escoffier banned shouting and alcohol, and exhibited the polite behavior he expected from his staff.
Burr added, "Underlying all the condom jokes and bad behavior is something genuine: the anxiety that young people in a youth-obsessed culture can feel when they're finally and irrevocably called upon to be responsible".
Where that data fit into the GOP's strategy remains unclear, but it shows that social sites well beyond real identity-obsessed Facebook have evolved into rich sources for political campaigns seeking to understand and predict voter behavior.
Now businesses from brewers to cable television stations to skin-care companies are taking closer looks and are finding that the fashion-obsessed metrosexual man with a library of lotions is just part of the equation in men's consumer behavior.
