The Wrong Question: Why Your Most Attentive Leaders Walk Away Unchanged
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The Wrong Question: Why Your Most Attentive Leaders Walk Away Unchanged

Chris Jarvis April 15, 2026

A 2019 ERP study complicates the standard narrative about power and empathy. High-power participants show amplified sensory processing, not reduced. The problem is not engagement. The problem is orientation. Includes the neuroscience of the Brief, the distress-compassion circuit distinction, and the dosage problem.

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