In many cases data is simply not reliable or granular enough. For example, a key issue reported between 3/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  the bid/ask price is data. Loan tapes need to include all the necessary information relating to the collateral and legal process to allow for cross-section and segmentation analysis.
There is a lot of truth in what Buddha once said that “What we think we become”. In this modern world, the coercive leadership model in my view no longer works. Why? I think that one of the major reasons is that workers are now better educated and better informed than they were before. They are also more independent.