Societies have changed many times throughout history. These changes have also brought new leaders, but not always the right leaders stand out. There are examples of this situation in many different places. For example, the reason for the crisis that emerged in 2008 was the managers who did not act ethically for many people. Today, people prefer leaders to behave more ethically. Companies therefore go to distribute power and create different levels of management. Many firms are now dividing leadership into layers. Chicken and egg paradox: There are studies showing that leaders with advanced empathy are better managers. It is not surprising that the students love teachers who understand them more or the bosses who respect the employees have more say. When Barack Obama campaigned for his second presidential term, Michelle Obama said, “Being a president does not change who you are, it reveals who you are.” How leadership and accompanying power affect people is a bit like the egg-chicken paradox. A study of power and moral identity shows that it affects how much a person can use the power they have for their own benefit. Under normal circumstances, people have two different power supplies. The first of these; While the power arising from their positions such as teachers and principals, the other is power from their personalities. If authority and morality are not positive, abuse of power occurs. Empathy and humility reveal the use of more ethical power. Again, according to the same research, power is changing us. So what happens when people get the power? Most of us have the ability to empathize and the level of it changes. This feeling is at the heart of many human behaviors. Over time, empathy can become blunt. Empathy erosion changes people: In the research of Simon Baron-Cohen from Cambridge University, the relationship between empathy and brutality was addressed. Thus, it was investigated why people went astray, wild or wrong ways. When his empathy was lost, negative leadership emerged. Baron-Cohen called it ’empathy erosion’. The need to meet certain targets economically, deadlines, performance evaluations, and intense stress can cause the empathy feeling to blind over time. Although having a goal allows people to act more consistently and decisively, it can cause them to display closed behavior towards their environment. For managers, leaders and bosses, the temptation of power over time is a correct conclusion according to research. In order to raise leaders who really have the ability to empathize, each individual of the society plays a role.
