Visionary or Leader
A person who possesses marked gifts of Leadership may reach a place in their organization that compels them to choose whether their role is to be one of popular Leader or unpopular visionary. This has been my experience when I founded MailPost Australia. When someone becomes conscious of the fact that they are a Leader in their own organization, they have reached a major pinnacle for change management in their business. They must now choose one of two courses, that of Visionary and Creator or a Leader of men. If they seek to be a Visionary and a Leader, it has been said to me by many that they will be apt to make a failure of both. If they decide to be a Visionary only insofar as they can do so without losing their Leadership, they become a diplomat and cease to be a Visionary at all. If they decide to maintain Leadership at all costs, they may easily fall to the level of a politician who pulls the wires in order to gain or hold a position. In MailPost I decided to focus my attention to be a Visionary and Creator and assist the business in the backend as in March 2009 it seemed like there were many that wanted to lead the business and I chose to step down as Chief Executive in MailPost Australia. In this case looking back on the situation it was not the best timing to succumb to the pressures of change management for the same reason that change management is quite risky when an organisation is not in a start up or unstable state.