“Managers restrict themselves to setting constraints, and they allow the performance systems in their team members to kick in and use their innate problem-solving potential. And besides, rules from management usually don’t get the job done anyway. After all, a reliable way to bring an organization to its knees is for people to do exactly what the rules tell them to do and nothing else”
Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9780321719027/ch10.html/