Steveer Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listener Peter writes in.

I work with many people whom I consider friends, but I'm about to be promoted to manager.

I'm concerned how to go from being someone at their level to being just above them

and managing them. I want to be able to do my job, but not make them detest me. Peter, the quick and

dirty tip is to find your common goals and form a partnership with your employees around those

goals. Hi, Peter. You are wise to be asking the question. One day, you're hanging out with all your

co-workers, scheming mercilessly about how to outwit that idiot boss you all report to. Then,

suddenly, when you realize you just might be that next boss, somehow being on the receiving end of all that

scheming seems much less attractive. Welcome to the wonderful world of management. First of all,

when you become a manager, know what you're getting into. Your job is to hire people,

promote the stars, and fire non-performers.

That tension will always exist, but you can certainly do a lot to build a strong relationship

with your employees.

You know why people hate managers?

It's because they think their manager is their enemy.

The evil manager is there to work you as hard as humanly possible at impossible quality standards.

Your job is to valiantly resist doing everything possible, so you work as little as you can.

But there's another way.

Very few new managers know it, because they think being boss is about being bossy.

But the best managers view their jobs as helping their people succeed.

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