People who can make decisions for which they can never be held accountable have the potential to be incredibly destructive of the organization and of the lives of its members. Win the lottery or the lasuit, and you will have power, but be accountable for nothing. The role of compassion in leadership is poorly understood. Many people believe there is no relationship. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
Compassion is located near responsibility in the geography of leadership.
The converse is that we tend to feel compassion towards people we are already responsible for. Compassion as an element of leadership has a bad reputation today. Social conservatives believe that compassion, inappropriately exercised, turns people into children, granting them benefits while requiring nothing in return. Compassion leads to the welfare state. Certainly, compassion in any organizational setting must be tempered by fairness.