This is not surprising data. Too few people pay attention to developing their personhood, too few institutions in society encourage and incorporate such development. Consequently, when people get into roles and positions of authority they do not wear it well. On the whole "bosses" are not an enlightened bunch.

I do wish we could get away from conflating leadership with the exercise of authority, thus not equate leaders with supervisors or managers. I know this is common, but it really just diminishes and constrains what leadership should be about--the activity of people regardless of position or role in service of the meaningful work that needs to get done.

From this perspective, the exercise of leadership can be understood in terms of: being of service, discerning what is meaningful, what constitutes progress, and engaging stakeholders in the process. The capacities and skills needed for this are the same one's needed for developing one's personhood. In this way, attention to be human can then be an integral part of institutional and organizational life.