Honing his therapy skills? Oh yeah, the same way that he honed them when he murdered Christopher.

He's a mob boss for land's sake! He represents a family and he sits there and let's the boss of another family talk to him like he's some kind of a street soldier who's serving under him. He acted like a pu**y with Phil!

And as far as Corleone cunning, I think that you have your characters and your movies mixed up. Tony doesn't even come close to a Corleone.