More often, their role is advising the current officers. The next level of leadership in the community is the lieutenants. These are the people who actually carry out the details of planning and implementing programs. They tend to be highly visible, which leads the less knowledgeable to identify them as the influentials in the community. They may be beholden to one or several of the influentials for their positions.
Lieutenants tend to occupy elected and appointed official positions.
Others are middle-management level professionals or younger, upwardly mobile professionals. Lieutenants are important to the success of a group's project because they provide the links to the influentials. Often, they are the ones who carry the group's message to the influentials and bring back the response. So it is important to be able to identify the lieutenants who have the ear of the influentials one is trying to reach. The third level of leadership is the doers.