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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.

Of course, there is no clear-cut dichotomy between the two roles and the one does not necessarily exclude the other. But a situation can very easily develop like in my case, in which one has to choose between a Visionary Role that is conceptually based and a people centric Leadership role. Can we be both? Herein lies the paradox.

Samuel Brengle was one of the truly great Leaders of the Salvation Army. A man of scholarship as well as of unusual Spiritual power, he outlined the role to Leadership in challenging words: “It is not gained by seeking great things for ourselves, but rather, like Paul the apostle, by counting those things that are gain to us as loss for Christ. That is a great price, but it must be unflinchingly paid by him who would be not merely a nominal but a real Spiritual Leader of men, a Leader whose power is recognized and felt in heaven, on earth, and in hell. He chose to be a Leader of men rather than a Visionary, and that was the secret of his power that manifest the growth of the organisation.