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 To be empathetic is to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, to live their [[lived experience]]; to look at the world from their perspective. It is to ''take sides. This is something to value in the family dog, and your own mother. Not a leader. Leaders have to be independent, to have no interest in the matter, and recuse herself when she does. Leaders need sometimes to make decisions their subordinates might not like, and sometimes to arbitrate — to settle disputes between subordinates that at least one of them ''definitely'' will not like.
-In our postmodern, morally relativistic times, the opportunities for leaders to take sides and get away with it are rare indeed. That great
+In our postmodern, morally relativistic times, the opportunities for leaders to take sides and get away with it — where there is a consensus good guy against an old school Bond villain antagonist — are rare indeed.  Jacinda Arden who branded herself an empathetic leader had a couple of rare opportunities with unexpected white supremacist terrirism, and murderous volcanoes. But even the early throes of pandemic proved harder to manage when it turned out she was responsible for multiple constituencies whose interests conflicted, and she couldn’t empathise with all of them.
 Since empathy is instinctive, we also tend to empathise with those closest to us, who was can most easily identify with.