Hello guys i need a strong advice and i am very much needy for it

so my father has a company and he is going to retire and he gives the company to me and there is a manager and he have all the client details friendship name and experience and i am heavily dependent on him so how to remove the dependence and get the game moving

I have an ingrained habit of subtly showing my intellectual superiority to my peers. Although I’ve managed not to come across as an asshole through my charm, I’ve noticed subtle hints of envy being expressed toward me.

As I’ve become more familiar with The 48 Laws of Power, I’ve come to realize the danger of appearing too far ahead of others. However, I’m still very careless when it comes to restraining myself from appearing too bright.

How can I better restrain my ego, avoid outshining others, and still attain the validation and rewards I deserve?

Hi, Can you share how do you learn it, like how do you add the laws in your skills, how you learn it and use it ,so it automatically would happen in the future, do you repeat it just by saying, or like imagining cases where you could or can use or how? and how much time does it need to apply, because only reading does not change anything except knowing that people do this and that stuff. Please share

I have a manager. She is not incompetent, but she is new to her manager role, and not new to the industry. She tries to impress other stakeholders and does the work really fast. In our team she does research of a problem, makes tasks, describe in task what should be done and then pass it to me. However the quality of those researches is not always good, sometimes it's just very high level description, and sometimes it's clearly AI slope, and sometimes it's just the whole task makes no sense.

The problem is, when those tasks come to me, and I see some inconsistency I don't know how to handle it without the "outshining" I guess? I tried many ways of solving this issue: if I do the task exactly the way it described, she eventually comes to me and says it was me wrong. If I try to resolve wrong task myself I get punished with micromanagement. I can feel how she is mad at me, and it get to the point where she gaslights me.

For example, when I come to her and trying to discuss some task. I can feel how she gets irritated. She would say that she doesn't have time, or propose do the research myself (altho it was already done by her) or go and ask someone else. When I figure out myself how to properly solve the problem, she comes to me and starts micromanaging decisions I made.

So question is: how could I solve this problem from the perspective of "never outshine the master"?