In all cases, the executive shares the authority and responsibility with the individual to whom they are delegated. While responsibility unhinged from authority creates hapless victims, authority without responsibility creates monsters. 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.