The purpose of your authority is to enforce systemized orderliness.
Systemized orderliness can be enforced in a Joe Clark manner, yes, and there are also other methods. The Joe Clark manner has its pros and its cons and you have to consider the situation that you are going into, what the needs and deficits are, the amount of quality help that you have, how much opposition there is, the amount of passive aggression, how much needs to go into developing help that is of value to you, the goal that you need to achieve, how quickly you need to achieve a turnaround, and the resources and support that you have from your board, council, etc.