I think this is typical in many kinds of undemocratic organizations, in which workers are more or less forced to work for a result, which they hardly can share, or do not even know. If we define power as the possibility to influence the common result, then the power is always distributed. If he thinks he can realize his personal perspective just by exploiting other people in the forced achievement of results, he neglects the real contribution of the others to the common result. Not only does the common result contain those aspects beneficial for the leader, but it includes also all those constituents that are reflections of the opposition of the others who are forced to participate in the process. This limitation is the factor, which then usually leads to revolution and elimination of the dictator.
Real leadership means that the orders given by the leader are formed in the whole organization.
Thus, the task of the leader is to declare or condense the orders and strategic lines already formed by the whole system. How well this happens, depends on the structure of the organization.