This has everything to do with problems with authority (if you get instant bad reaction from the word , you know the problem intimately.) How how human society

This has everything to do with problems with authority (if you get instant bad reaction from the word , you know the problem intimately.) How how human society or organization deals with authority determines how well it can organize. In the industrial society large power distances and strong authority made things work but also created problems. In the post-industrial society old ways simply don't work. As a result there has been understandable and healthy backlash and distrust against authority since the 60's. Where this correction went wrong was treating authority as innately bad thing that must never be recognized. If a person has a healthy relationship with authority, they can both take leadership role or give it to others easily without sacrificing their dignity or feeling less or more than others. They understand the limit of authority but give it a good change to work. Absentee leader culture comes from people who don't think they should be leading or that they don't' have the right to do so. They think themselves as managers and not as leaders.