Key points

Research has revealed that with increasing power comes decreasing likelihood of empathy.

This is an inherent human bias, so it is a true blind spot.

Leaders who fail to take other peoples' perspectives are at a disadvantage.

Try the strategies described here to work around the power-empathy bias.

Have you ever noticed someone in power who seems rather indifferent to the opinions of others? Perhaps you’ve witnessed a leader who doesn’t seem tuned in to the experiences of the people they lead.

It’s not just your imagination , and it may not be that the person was always like that. Instead, it appears that having power actually impairs a person’s ability to empathize. If that isn’t concerning enough, people are unaware of this power-induced tendency in themselves, thus fall

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