There are primate dominance rituals to be observed.  One is power based.  You serve me, not the other way around.  When I say jump you better reply how high within 15 seconds, and you are not in a social position to ask me to jump.  You can also signal primate dominance WRT making sure everyone knows you&#x27;re not feeling the need to put on a show of being necessary because you&#x27;re a hero, because your position is otherwise so secure you don&#x27;t need to pose to protect your dominance.<p>Its possible to brag or enforce dominance about management skill.  A skilled manager can get hit by a truck and finely crafted systems and procedures will work for days, weeks, months.  An incompetent manager is perpetually running around like a chicken with head cut off in continuous hero saves the day mode, which looks impressive to people who don&#x27;t understand it signals gross incompetence.  So you can stealthily brag about your management power level by very loudly claiming you don&#x27;t have to be a superhero because unlike the chicken with their head cut off competitors, you actually know how to manage and lead.<p>Another primate dominance interpretation is level based, not skill or power based.  Low level people have low level responsibilities, like instantaneously responding to absolutely everyone.  Higher level people respond to higher level problems, which tend to both evolve and be fixed much more slowly.  So a line employee or team lead needs to be a whipped slave, but a CEO who needs to micromanage is a failed CEO, that CEO should be thinking about next years overall strategy, not ultra short term like how to do a customer service reps job for them.  A few days here or there don&#x27;t matter for producing annual strategic plan.  A micromanaging CEO won&#x27;t have a long term plan.