What purpose do chief administrators serve in large charitable organizations?

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In corporate cultures, it takes a certain mentality to engage in different organizations.

In a start up, you get a certain mentality, a certain maverick identity. Joseph Smith had that energy.

Over time, an organization grows and its members need control and organization. I guess we can see through Brigham Young, a colonizer through David O. McKay, a modernizer, and Harold B. Lee, the Great Correlater.

So in an established bureaucracy such as the Church, or even the RCC, what purpose do the chiefs serve?

They are there in part to run the actual organization, to manage its employees.

And I suppose they set policy.

But really aren't they there for vision?

What vision today?

Is it growth?

Is it maintenance?

What is the purpose today?