# Management Culture at Asana - Our Balanced Approach > At Asana, we value transparency, balance, and working together as peers, and we try to apply these values to our management culture. Source: https://asana.com/inside-asana/management-at-asana ## Our management culture at Asana At Asana, we [value](https://asana.com/about) transparency, balance, working together as peers, and investing in each other, and we try to apply these values to our management culture. We think that good management requires balance. We try to give people the freedom they need to contribute at their full potential, while also providing the support that helps them grow to become even more capable. Our approach is “distributed responsibility,” exemplified by our [AoR (Area of Responsibility) program](http://www.quora.com/Asana/What-is-an-AoR-at-Asana). Instead of having all decisions flow through the management hierarchy, we go out of our way to distribute them as evenly as possible across all employees. At the same time, our approach emphasizes personal growth, especially through mentorship. I believe the most important contribution of a manager is to serve their reports by unblocking them, mentoring them, and pointing them in a direction that best serves their needs and the priorities of the organization. I explained our approach more in a [blog post](https://medium.com/on-startups/c01c6846e06e) I posted today on Medium. We’d like to share our [internal document](https://docs.google.com/a/asana.com/document/d/1Nebx9nOGc9LB4QbM4UWwa69npQ1enPtMOMHMQ9daHTU/edit#heading=h.ez8nobclqno) that outlines the beliefs and practices that help inform our management culture at Asana. Our goals for sharing this document are to start a conversation about management culture and inspire other companies to share their own thinking. We’d love to hear your thoughts on management culture in the comments. - [Welcoming Kevin Knieriem, Asana’s Chief Revenue Officer](/inside-asana/welcoming-kevin-knieriem-cro) Company Team Asana #### Content writer We’re excited to welcome Kevin Knieriem to Asana as our Chief Revenue Officer.Kevin joins Asana at an important moment for the company and our customers. As organizations move tow ... - [Asana Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Collaborative Work Management for Third Consecutive Year](/inside-asana/leader-in-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-collaborative-work-management-report) Company #### Content writer We're pleased to share that for the third year in a row, Asana has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Collaborative Work Management (CWM). We believe, t ... - [Asana’s FY25 ESG Report: Accelerating Impact for People, Planet, and Product](/inside-asana/fy25-asana-esg-report) Company #### Content writer At Asana, our mission is to help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly. This mission extends far beyond just our product; it’s deeply woven i ... - [Charting a new path: How we’re building the future of work management with Asana Partners](/inside-asana/future-work-management-asana-partners) Company #### Content writer Partners have been integral to Asana’s story from the very beginning. Even before we had an official partner program, we had committed ‘partners’ in our legacy Certified Pros prog ... - [Our management culture at Asana](/inside-asana/management-at-asana) Company At Asana, we value transparency, balance, working together as peers, and investing in each other, and we try to apply these values to our management culture. We think that good ma ... - [Company](/inside-asana/company)