I bet your friend works super hard to manage 50 people as well as you say. I was in the Navy and the primary way to make a division/department great was for the

I bet your friend works super hard to manage 50 people as well as you say. I was in the Navy and the primary way to make a division/department great was for the leader to work 2x as hard as their peers to make sure theor division/department was performing awesomely. I recall having to get up 2 hours early to review my division's maintenance schedule so I could do surprise spot-checks. Peers would let the 1st class PO choose the spot-checks, and of course they're going to chose the easiest and fastest ones to finish, rather than something representative of the most important maintenance that day. The thing is, my division wasn't angry at me for doing the hard spot-checks (or anything else I was a hard-ass about), because I also spent more time to make sure they got ranked at the top of the stack and fought for them to get more time off and freedoms even if my superiors got irritated at me, so they were willing to work hard and perform above the rest of the crew. Managers that suck and don't work as hard have shit teams.