{"id":2076,"date":"2017-12-28T17:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T06:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2019-01-08T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T03:11:59","slug":"down-the-microscope-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/down-the-microscope-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the microscope, briefly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In every organisation, there is a group to whom the organisation owes its existence. &nbsp;We often talk of the &#8216;owners&#8217;, since in a commercial organisation it is the owners, literally, who cause the enterprise to come into being and to have a particular purpose. &nbsp;But there is an equivalent group for every enterprise, commercial or not, public or private, whatever its status in the law and the community &#8211; even canon law includes the notion of a &#8216;juridic person&#8217; (sometimes termed a &#8216;public juridic person&#8217;), something separate to the religious institute members that make it up from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is crucial to the governance responsibilities of the board (again, or its equivalent, responsible to direct the organisation as opposed to running it from day to day). &nbsp;The board is not an unfettered free agent, with carte blanche to do what it likes: the board remains responsible to the owners for realising the purpose for which the organisation exists (and, of course, operating within the law!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this brief, we take a quick look <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ThinkEvans-on-The-Owners-1.pdf\"><strong>down the microscope<\/strong><\/a> at what happens when an organisation is spawned, and provide some memory joggers about related concepts for organisation leaders to keep in mind for their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In every organisation, there is a group to whom the organisation owes its existence. &nbsp;We often talk of the &#8216;owners&#8217;, since in a commercial organisation it is the owners, literally, who cause the enterprise to come into being and to have a particular purpose. &nbsp;But there is an equivalent group for every enterprise, commercial or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,20,18,41],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thinking","tag-board-duties","tag-governance","tag-performance-measurement","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkevans.com.au\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}