If you set people free, empowering them to make their own decisions and define their own work as knowledge professionals, you need good policy for their sake and yours. If you set someone free in a field they need to know where the boundaries of the field are.
Direct is Teal Unicorn’s policy (“governance artefact”) framework. The name comes from the three functions of governance defined by the ISO/IEC 38500 standard , which are direct, monitor, and evaluate. It also plays on the pun of “direct” as both a verb and an adjective.