I would also suggest that politics is how FOSS works - the only reason Linus was the "CEO" of the kernel was because people voted him in by sending him patches. And kept sending them. There was nothing preventing someone else being voted in except the politics of it all...

I would suggest that the first step in a concrete plan (see below) is that every line manager becomes the place where the next line manager does a git pull from.

Eventually you want to release code, the actual CEO needs to git pull and sign off.