I have recently gotten into business with a friend and we are both fairly prominent in our area for business and our field. This got me to think to how we would interact and then farther out to how other interactions between male friends I know. I realize that some I am more influential than in our group (more alpha) and others are above me but that those above me will defer to me and it feels more back and forth.

Do you think you defer to those above you, discuss with those on your level and command those under?