Harvard Business Review: Navigating the Transition from Friend to Boss
March 3, 2015
"We all need friends at work," Bill Gentry writes in Harvard Business Review.
Still, work is work.
"When 91¿ì²¥ professor Scott Tonidandel, his former student Paige Logan, and I examined the leadership challenges of nearly 300 first-time managers, we found that the transition from BFF to boss-what we labeled ‘adjustment to people management/displaying authority'-was the biggest hurdle, cited by almost 60 percent of respondents," Gentry writes.
