Should you have Project Managers?

Should you have project managers?

How do you assign responsibilities inside a group or organization?

Let's say you have a team and several tasks or projects. They are complex and involve the same people. These people have to collaborate. There will be opportunities when task A competes with task B.
Is this good or bad?

Well, it depends on whether the bigger picture is lost or not. Can we focus on task A and put task B on hold? Probably. How do we when task B becomes so late that it affects the larger team's success, reputation, or health?

We can't tell at the level of the tasks. We need to watch the highest level.

You can have people accountable for parts of the work IF and only IF you also have mechanisms in place to watch for the well-being of the team at all times.

This is what I call energizing Resilience.
You can have people responsible for separate tasks and projects, but you should always have someone (and that someone getting help from everyone else) watching for the well-being of the team and everything associated with its resilience.

You can have project managers IF you have people managers, and the latter have more power than the former.
IF you want resilience, that is.