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“Fostering relationships across the organization is seen as the important element in creating coordinated actions. A strong commitment to a common set of values provides the framework for this process. Everyone thinks about the customer. Product”
― Jeremy Hope, Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap

“Linear models tend to define relationships in terms of roles rather than people: the boss rather than the person actually exerting influence. The organic model tends to define relationships in terms of one unique person to another unique person.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“group executives still have an important role to play in the development of strategy. For example, they set values, boundaries, direction, and guidelines for strategy development and decision making, and then challenge the plans and ambitions of business unit managers. This process is done in broad strokes, and quickly. There are few detailed submissions and presentations. The only exception is if new capital expenditures or other major resource requirements are needed to support strategic options.”
― Jeremy Hope, Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap

“The leadership team would then spend most of their days walking the floor trying to understand where we were struggling and why. This is a new role for most executives and one we encourage executives to embrace if this process is going to be successful. We”
― Gary Gruver, Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale