The opposite effect is equally powerful: You make your opponents hurry.
Start off your dealings with them slowly, then suddenly apply pressure, making them feel that everything is happening at once.
When troubles arise, they look for the underlying cause,
the single strong character who started the stirring and whose isolation or banishment will settle the waters again.
You don’t need to be cold. Just inaccessible. Respond slower. Reveal less. Be polite, but unreadable. When people have to guess how you feel, they start treating you like someone they can’t afford to miscalculate. That’s how distance breeds influence.