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When promotion creates relationship casualties

I got promoted to manage my former peers and now they act like I betrayed them by accepting authority over them.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Hierarchical advancement can rupture lateral relationships that were built on assumed equality of position.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Life transitions as identity events?”

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