吉林省白山市2014高考英语二轮基础训练（9）及答案
【深圳市2014高考英语综合能力测试题（2）】
Should you be friends with your employees? I'm the type of person who likes to be friends with everyone. As I developed my company, I got to a point where I realized being friends with employees was hurting our business and our life. Here are the issues:
You'll naturally become closer friends with some people, but others will think you play favorites. When you promote people who are your friends, how will the rest of the company view that promotion and how will that influence your team's culture and the people who are promoted? Even if the promotion is well deserved, other employees are unlikely to view it that way. You'll be considered as a manager who plays favorites. And, realistically, it's probably hard not to at least subconsciously (潜意识地) favor your friends.
Your friends treat you differently compared to your employees. You don't want your employees to necessarily treat you or company rules as casually as your friends would.
Your employees might find it easier not to be friends with you. Let's say you have an employee who works hard and doesn't have enough time for his or her family and friends. Do they want you as a friend? Probably not. It was easy for me to be friends with everyone when we had 25 employees. But it is much more difficult when we had over 150 employees.
