But it might be good advice for all of us creative visionaries: organisations can only be changed from the top or from the outside. You can do some pro-Deo consultancy work, but let managers co-opt your ideas. They like that: it's what they do. You don't want to be associated with it. Keep it separate from your "actual" work.

Changing organisations is treacherous work. Machiavellian.

I absolutely love it.

Edit:
Was that too antisocial?

Mania deserves to be used effectively: product/service/cause over people. An organisation good for its people but not for the users of its services, even or maybe more so, prisons, can't be actually good for its people. Even laying off people can liberate them.

But people will feel threatened by change, so do things secretively. Going to your boss's boss is tantamount to revolution for some.