[motohagiography]

these are nice and useful, but kind of basic social skills that you'll find are neither sufficient or necessary (otherwise almost everyone who managed would have them, and having them would yield manager roles). they will make you more likable, and less annoying to deal with for sure. however, the people you ultimately work for have typically learned some variation of this: https://jeffreypfeffer.com/teaching/

Stanford has Pfeffer's Paths to Power, Harvard had the Negotiation Project, and I'm sure the other ivy and oxbridge colleges have something similar. you are up against pros who train on this.

Learn this stuff. we need more people with domain competence in _something_ in positions of power because I think there is an essential moral quality to competence that mitigates its excesses. the basic problem with specialist professional management is the goal of all professions is to sustain themselves first, whereas domain-competent people who manage can offset the crap from ones who just like power over others for its own end.