Some unwritten rules about corporate behaviour: If you get promoted to a position above your colleagues, then you should no longer have personal relations with them.
Continue at first to accept invitations to the homes of employee friends who now are your subordinates, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then don't accept at all.
For instance, find ways of avoiding the old group at lunch time. Let them understand you cannot be one of them any longer.
If you have a family, then you may give your wife more leeway in disengaging from the old circle of peers. After all, she is not as savvy as you are regarding the corporate rules.
Indeed, this severance of old ties is a gradual process which may take some time - but one day it is completed. Get used to the fact that it is lonely at the top.
I guess you had some inkling of these things, but did you fully understand the brutal reality of this coded system?
One may ask what this code of behaviour is good for. And here is an answer: Take the story of the two office clerks who were doing a lousy job. They happened to be great friends with the manager of that department.
These hapless employees caused the company to lose business worth $40,000. When their manager was told to get rid of them, he didn't take action. As a result, both he and the two clerks were fired. This manager failed to understand the demands of his position. - 15431
Continue at first to accept invitations to the homes of employee friends who now are your subordinates, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then don't accept at all.
For instance, find ways of avoiding the old group at lunch time. Let them understand you cannot be one of them any longer.
If you have a family, then you may give your wife more leeway in disengaging from the old circle of peers. After all, she is not as savvy as you are regarding the corporate rules.
Indeed, this severance of old ties is a gradual process which may take some time - but one day it is completed. Get used to the fact that it is lonely at the top.
I guess you had some inkling of these things, but did you fully understand the brutal reality of this coded system?
One may ask what this code of behaviour is good for. And here is an answer: Take the story of the two office clerks who were doing a lousy job. They happened to be great friends with the manager of that department.
These hapless employees caused the company to lose business worth $40,000. When their manager was told to get rid of them, he didn't take action. As a result, both he and the two clerks were fired. This manager failed to understand the demands of his position. - 15431
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