Great companies have fallen hopelessly behind the change curve because middle managers and first level employees lacked the power and courage to speak up. To be an activist and to exercise power enormous courage and willpower are needed for persons at bottom level to raise his voice, breaking the hierarchy. The goal is not to leave senior executive behind. The goal is not to stage a palace coup. But when senior managers are distracted, when planning has supplanted strategizing, and when more energy is being devoted to protecting the past than to creating the future, activists come forward and enforce power.