Thinking about hiring a friend to work for you, or thinking about taking a job where your friend would be your boss? Think carefully before you do it.
Contrary to what nearly everyone thinks when they’re first considering it, it’s really hard, and very few people come out of it with their friendship intact. For some reason, no one believes this at the beginning. Everyone thinks it will be different for them. But it rarely is.
Over at U.S. News & World Report this week, I wrote about 7 reasons you won’t want to manage a friend. Check it out, leave comments over there, and consider yourself warned.
