Every organization I have worked for has delegated decision making down to myself and others. No one walked in with full authority and accountability. We were given a defined responsibility, a set of boundaries, and gradually gained more autonomy and agency over time. We do the same with those that we hire. We accumulate evidence…
You cannot fully own an outcome if you do not have the authority to make the decisions that materially determine it.
Trust is designed through the decisions people are allowed to make.
Outputs only matter when they change an outcome.