>To make that [all of the negative parts of managing people] easier, you need to keep some distance with the folks you manage. The article seems predicated on

>To make that [all of the negative parts of managing people] easier, you need to keep some distance with the folks you manage. The article seems predicated on this idea; that there are unpleasant parts of management and they're made more unpleasant by being friendlier than one needs to be with the people one is responsible for. I won't dispute that, but I would like to say that ideally they should not be the 'steady state' of management. Is it a sure thing, a universal thing, that the benefits of being friendly across the team do not outweigh the costs of these infrequent, unpleasant interactions typically between only two people? Seems to be another topic where nuance is important; not sure I'd suggest any hard and fast rules about the distance one should keep between themselves and people they're responsible for.