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Competitive Colleagues - advice from Karren Brady
I am about to be promoted ahead of a colleague who joined the firm at the same time as me. Until now we've been good friends, we go to the pub and play football together. He's not going to take it well - but I'd like us still to be friends - so what do you suggest?
Keep your friendship and business quite separate. While it's important to get on with colleagues, it's more important to get on with your business, and the journey up the corporate ladder is never an easy one.
There are obviously reasons why you have had a promotion and your colleague did not. If he is a good friend he will realise and recognise what those reasons are.
It is very important to be gracious in your success and as my grandmother used to say to me, you should never look down on people unless you're helping them up.