When something at work makes me angry, the worst thing I can do is respond right then. It doesn't matter how right I feel, or that I have the authority to just make the call.
I know this, and I still want to. A message lands in Slack, or another team is pointing fingers at us without talking to us first, and my first instinct is to jump in with a very sharp reply. In the moment that feels like leadership. Really I'm just mad and I have a keyboard.
So I walk away from it. Close the laptop and take a walk around the block. For the small stuff a minute is enough.
For the bigger stuff I give it a night. The thing that had me typing in all caps at 4pm usually looks different the next morning. Sometimes I was missing context. Sometimes I was right, and I still would have made it worse by saying so at 4pm. The next morning I can ask questions first.
This matters more when you're the manager, because that same authority means your anger carries more weight than you think. A sharp reply from a peer is a bad afternoon. The same reply from their boss is something they think about all weekend.
The problem will still be there tomorrow, and you can be angry about it then if you still need to be.
My rule: if I'm angry, I dont hit send today.