If you are the boss, don't be cowardly. Your foundation is not the recognition of external partners, but the cohesion of your own team. Therefore, you need to show strong determination and strong leadership, and not be easily swayed by outside rhetoric. If you turn around and scold the people in your team because of a few words from the outside, it will only make both the inside and outside look down on you, and over time, you will lose your cohesion internally, and you will lose credibility externally, and it will be difficult to leave at that time.
Don't worry about your subordinates, and don't plan for anyone's future. If you can grow, you can grow without planning; If you can't grow, you plan that people think you have a lot of things. You must always remember that you are the boss, not your parents or older siblings, and don't fantasize about building a big family, no one will treat you as their own. When managing a team, you need to maintain the appropriate distance and authority, and not get too involved in the private life and career planning of your subordinates. Keep saying that you appreciate you and give you the most work, but when distributing the cake, you don't mention your partner, don't cooperate next time, you can't hide, and don't rush too hard. For those who just say but don't do, you need to be vigilant and not be fooled by their sweet words. In cooperation, you need to pay attention to the fairness of the actual distribution of benefits, and do not let yourself and your team be treated unfairly. 
Your biggest opponent is not a capable colleague, but a peer with a particularly green tea personality. Because people with strong ability will fight the world to earn performance by themselves, while green tea itself has no ability to obtain performance, and can only be exploited from others, then you will be miserable. At work, you need to keep an eye out for those peers who have a green tea personality. They may not have the actual ability, but they will exploit the fruits of other people's labor through various means. You need to learn to protect yourself and your team and not let them get their way. 
If you meet someone who is very strong and intends to bully you and suppress you, you don't need to think about correcting him, currying favor, befriending him, and other solutions, and you don't need to read the 36 strategies and the art of war, and engage in a bunch of conspiracies. None of this can stop him from continuing to oppress you, taking a step back and doubling his bag for a while. The only solution is to be in a matter where you are justified and the other person wants to bully you: when there are more people, the better, and you will fight back hard and mercilessly, and then you will get a colleague who suddenly becomes friendly and united. When confronted with a strong colleague who is trying to bully you, don't try to solve the problem by currying favor or compromising on you. Instead, you should take a tough stance on what you are justified and fight back back at their attacks without mercy. Doing so may shock and humiliate them, but it will also make them understand that you are not someone who can be easily bullied. In this process, you need to stay calm and sane and not be swayed by emotions.