Why governance and day to day management are kept separate
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Governance sets overall direction and provides oversight, while day to day management carries out the actual work within that direction, and keeping the two roles distinct helps prevent a small group from both setting the rules and marking their own performance against them. That separation protects the integrity of both roles at once.
When governance and management blur together, accountability weakens, since the people responsible for delivering the work are also the ones assessing whether that work has been done well, which removes much of the independent check that good governance is meant to provide. That blurring often happens gradually, without any single deliberate decision.
Maintaining a clear separation, even in a small campaign where the same few people might fill both roles at different moments, helps preserve the discipline of genuine oversight rather than letting it collapse quietly into simple self assessment. Naming the distinction out loud helps keep it real in practice, not just on paper.