ABSTRACT
Culture sets the context for networked intelligence, shared direction, superior team collaboration and the thinking of great ideas that lead to sustainable innovations. Structure helps people organise, share and leverage intelligence, skills and energy. As HR have a declining influence on the mechanics of human resources (HR), they will create greater value as people who help design good jobs, good structures and cultures in their role as Organisation Developers. This chapter examines the world of biology to look for structural insights with applications to the world of economics and business. Biological structures also require biological behaviours to make them work. We must master complexity and multiple relationships. As things become more complex in the world of work, humans have a tendency to match the complexity by adding layers of complex process and procedure, when exactly the opposite is usually needed.
