# PART IV: ORGANISATIONS 12. ORGANISATIONS ARE LIVING BEINGS Organisations, and especially for-profit businesses, are an essential and natural part of human society; so they are best understood as living beings, living systems that have meaning-making capacity. To lead our businesses well we need to know their organisational energy economy (and our personal one). Two useful lenses to use are the four integral quadrants, yielding the management accountability hierarchy vs. the human capability hierarchy; and the four layers: intra-personal, inter-personal, intra-organisation, inter-organisation and stakeholders. The problem of purpose, and how to solve it through driver orientation. 13. YOUR ORGANISATION IS ITS PEOPLE Starting and then growing an organisation begins and ends with the strength and purity of the people acting as source. Individual and cultural meaning-making creates the reality that everyone in the organisation experiences. Psychological safety, leading to deliberate personal development and high levels of interactivity is the foundation for a long-term thriving business. Learn dialogue patterns to harness the value of conflict in yourself and teams, to have an antifragile and successful business. 14. YOUR ORGANISATION IS ITS TASKS The whole point of any organisation is to deliver useful results by executing tasks or turning human energy into business output. How you do this depends on meaning-making stories, matching the individual Size of Person with the Size of Role. Do this poorly at the leadership team level, and you suffer from a developmentally divided team; do it well and you’ll thrive. Whether you use sociocracy, Holacracy, Agile, or anything of that ilk, they all need developmental approaches and a FairShares Commons style incorporation to work. 15. YOUR ORGANISATION IS ITS INCORPORATION How can the incorporation both increase your company’s financial performance and transform it into a regenerative business that addresses our global crises? By having all stakeholders aligned in the full range of ways of benefitting from the business and enabling it to succeed. How to do this? Reincorporate your company as a FairShares Commons: split past from future, money from governance; include all stakeholders and all capitals in governance and wealth sharing. So all benefit: investors, founders, staff, customers, suppliers, communities, and our natural environment.