Sometimes those obstacles are external events. Other times they are the doubt of those being led. Still other times they are the result of a leader's own failures and shortcomings.
Political power and influence are different. Once certain levels have been reached, there is no need to prove leadership or competence.
A person with such power is accustomed to having every word carefully considered, and every whim treated as an order. And all who recognize that power know to bow to it.
A few had the courage or the foolishness to resist. Some succeed in standing firm against the storm.
More often, they find their paths yet again turned from their hopes for goal. But such a turn does not always mean that the victim has lost or that the victor has won.
