>The person who has been charged with a task, should have authority to carry it out as best they see fit.
That requires specifically assigning someone the task and authority. This is the part most orgs fail on because to accept ownership is to take on risk. Organizations tend to focus on mitigating risk, and so it becomes increasingly difficult to actually have a person designated as responsible for the thing.
...and if someone naive enough steps up to take responsibility, they don't provide enough authority/resources to achieve the task. This is how organizations destroy autonomy in their employees.
This can be by design, so your risk takers always fail, and thus you can say you encourage risk takers but always have cause to fire them, resulting in a team of sycophants with a "culture of autonomy".
That requires specifically assigning someone the task and authority. This is the part most orgs fail on because to accept ownership is to take on risk. Organizations tend to focus on mitigating risk, and so it becomes increasingly difficult to actually have a person designated as responsible for the thing.