When you get promoted over your friends, treat them the same as last week. Titles change. People shouldn’t.
LEADERSHIP
WHAT THIS MEANS
A promotion changes what you are responsible for, not who your friends are, but it quietly offers you a new way of speaking to them and it is easy to accept without noticing. The tone shifts first, then the plans, then the honesty. Most people who lose friends this way never made a decision to. They just got slightly more formal every week until the old version was gone.
Keep the same jokes and the same directness. Ask their opinion about things where they know more than you, and say so in front of others.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Has a new title ever changed how you talk to friends?
MORE IN INTEGRITY & CHARACTER
- Your DMs should be something you’d be fine showing the person you’re with. That’s the whole standard.
- Brag about your friends when they’re not around. It gets back to them eventually, and it lands differently.
- Teach your grandma the same phone setting for the fourth time like it’s the first. She taught you to use a spoon.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.