I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.
You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
Sometimes I don't want to have to be the guy that gets the party going.
I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the next project.
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
I'm a good beginning key.
Protagonists traditionally are active characters.
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.