I have thought, since 2016, that groups on Steem will eventually need to learn to self-organize with "social technologies" like holacracy or sociocracy. I wrote a couple articles on the concepts:

• Order in Business Without Top-Down Control
• 7 Videos about Holacracy: A Social Technology for Human Self-Organization
• [Article Review]Sociocracy: An Organization Model for Large-Scale Agile Development

In many ways, I think we have leaders, but we don't have organization.

Another thought that I had recently is that it might make sense for the SPS to fund projects to find and hire a "CEO of the Steem blockchain", who would help to persuade stakeholders to direct SPS funding in strategic directions (including blockchain operation) and would also be accountable to the SPS in the same way that a traditional CEO is responsible to the board of directors.