Claims / C-27XE9MMHY4

Normative

As an organisation grows, the leader's job is the layer directly below, not the market; the ideas come from the front line.

The claim

As an organisation grows, the leader's work should be the layer directly below, not the market. Customers and shareholders sit outside, where the leader no longer has daily contact; the leader's leverage is making sure the people beneath share the cause and know how to build it. Ideas then come from the front line, where people talk to customers, and the leader's job is to keep the cause present so they look for ways to serve it.

Coordination architecture

Evidence 2 passages

  • groundsSource document

    the CEO's job, the leader's responsibility, is not to focus on the outside market, it's to focus on the layer directly beneath.

  • groundsSource document

    It is the people inside the company, those on the front lines, who are best qualified to find new ways of doing things.

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