"I got the idea from someone who suggested that ..."

I got the idea from someone who suggested that if donors would fund some organization-leaders to do task A, and those leaders think B is more valuable, then the donors should usually fund them to do B. In one version of the claim, the donors' role then is to make some global assessment of how worthy they are of funds, and not to argue much about strategy. This kind of thing could apply if the organization is focused on X only, half X and half Y et cetera.