"Michael Scott: Was macht einen guten Chef aus?" auf Englisch
The key to being a great boss — and I have been told I am the best boss in the Scranton area, possibly the entire mid-Atlantic region — is that your employees have to know that you are also their best friend. That is the secret.
But isn't there a risk that being too friendly makes it hard to give critical feedback?
No, because when you are best friends with someone, they WANT to hear your feedback — they crave it, actually. Name one time my feedback hurt someone. I'll wait. You can't, can you?