Anything you do a in professional context you can do in a friendly and supportive way. I have friendly relations with many business clients. We grab coffee. Bee

Anything you do a in professional context you can do in a friendly and supportive way. I have friendly relations with many business clients. We grab coffee. Beers. Talk about hobbies. If nothing else, it's a reminder to be a gracious human being even if things go wrong somewhere and relationships need to shift. You spend so much time around the people you work with. (With. Even managers "work with." I hate the phrase "work for." We "work with" each other and have different roles and areas of expertise. Both an IC and a CEO are adults trading their time and expertise for money and are working with each other to grow the company.) There are other options besides being besties with someone and artificially keeping them at arm's length.