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Ye well, "empathy" is the art of understanding what other people feel intuitively or to share feelings (feel the same thing as the subject) more or less. It helps to have be good at that, but, when you are talking about people problems, if you allow me to be abit presumptuous .. :) .. it is most likely some kind of anti-social behavior (drama, turf war, pride, w/e), not lack om empathy.

Empathy can even be utilized used to fuel drama. It doesn't have to be used for good. If you are surrounded by asses no amount of empathy will help.

The advice can just as well be "work with nice and kind people - they make great teams together". Empathy in this case is just a buzzword for something obvious.