Most of the time, the major problem clergy face in organising a parish's life is finding people to do things, as it is in any structure which largely relies on volunteers. People have little time to spare, or little confidence in their own abilities.
Occasionally you are landed with someone who is very determined to do exactly the thing they're not suited to: the person with a speech impediment who wants to read the lesson in services; the Sunday School teacher who scares children.
The difficulty most rarely presented is the person who wants to do too much. They may have very valuable talents and abilities, but their intervention in all sorts of areas causes confused lines of communication and accountability. As somebody who is very, and perhaps too much, governed by self-imposed and organisational boundaries - 'I don't need to think about this issue because it's so-and-so's task' - I find this hard to deal with to a degree which surprises me.
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