Quotes

"As innovators in the business sector implement strategies aligned with natural systems, new jobs and industries will flourish that will regenerate the biosphere while promoting employment opportunities that support social justice. These win-win scenarios are an encouraging sign for the greening of commerce."Andres R. Edwards Thriving Beyond Sustainability

Enterprises that choose to flourish ensure the health of natural systems, understanding that their future depends on a thriving planet.Rachel Carson Silent Spring

"we need greater impact per person, per dollar—and we need resources to be directed to their highest and best use."Leslie R. Crutchfield Forces for Good

"The principles of the 10X leadership program we present in this book are focused on helping both individuals, to find these opportunities for fulfillment and construct work environments and habits that will help them achieve growth and find purpose, and organizations, in this people‐fluid world, to become places where people want to stay because they can pursue their highest aspirations."Tal Ben-Shahar The Joy of Leadership

"Purpose is an intention that creates focus and draws us into the creation of a new future."Robert E. Quinn The Economics of Higher Purpose

“more companies are touting the B Corp logo, a third-party seal of environmental and social credentials, to attract young job seekers who want an employer committed to both a social mission and the bottom line."Ryan Honeyman et al. The B Corp Handbook

"can be happier working at something you love, build institutions that can act as platforms to catapult change (and create real value while doing it), and maybe even transform the world in necessary and far-reaching ways."John Seely-Brown The Power of Pull

"The collective glue that bonds communities together, the social stability that permits them to function efficiently,and the exchange relationships that create effective interactions all are embedded, ultimately, in ideas of trust, gratitude, respect, forgiveness, optimism, and other virtues."Positive Organizational Scholarship

"organizations can suppress or amplify the human capacity for caring."Monica Worline Awakening Compassion at Work

Businesses can flourish by ensuring the ecosystems they depend on are protected and regenerated, securing a future for all living beings.Jane Goodall The Book of Hope

"most important factor in predicting organizational performance—which was more than twice as powerful as any other factor—was the ratio of positive statements to negative statements."Kim Cameron Positive Leadership

Companies that pursue flourishing create value not just for shareholders, but for society by solving global challenges through innovation.Michael Porter Shared Value Leadership Summit

Businesses that commit to flourishing experience long-term financial performance, driven by employee engagement and customer satisfaction.Rosabeth Moss Kanter Harvard Business Review

"positive deviance represents “intentional behaviors that depart from the norm of a reference group in honorable ways” (Spreitzer & Sonenshein, 2003: 209). Positive leadership aims to help individuals and organizations attain spectacular levels of achievement."Kim Cameron Positive Leadership

"instead emphasize positive phenomena—for example, positive emotions, positive opportunities, and positive relationships—in the interest of developing a positive climate in the organization."Kim Cameron Positive Leadership

"Each connection is an asset that has been invested through connections."John, Peter McKnight, Block The Abundant Community

Flourishing enterprises are future-fit, empowering employees, encouraging self-management, and aligning with deeper societal and environmental goals.Frederic Laloux Reinventing Organizations

Flourishing businesses foster innovation by embedding purpose and social good into their core strategy, driving both performance and impact.Rosabeth Moss Kanter Harvard Business Review

"Embedded in this definition are four formative ideas about Appreciative Leadership: (1) it is relational; (2) it is positive; (3) it is about turning potential into positive power; and (4) it has rippling effects."Diana Whitney et al. Appreciative Leadership

In times of turmoil the danger lies not in the turmoil itself, but in facing it with yesterday’s logic.Peter Drucker

A flourishing enterprise creates real value for all stakeholders while ensuring people and communities thrive, and nature flourishes. Various Flourishing Enterprise BizMundi

"Well-being in the workplace is, in part, a function of helping employees do what is naturally right for them by freeing them up to do so—through behaviors that influence employee engagement and therefore that increase the frequency of positive emotions."Flourishing

A flourishing business creates opportunities where there are none, focusing on peopleâ€™s well-being and eliminating social inequality.Muhammad Yunus Banker to the Poor

Flourishing businesses align profit with purpose, creating sustainable growth and resilience by addressing social and environmental challenges.Ryan Honeyman The B Corp Handbook

“Companies that are breaking the mold are moving beyond corporate social responsibility to … social innovation."Chris Laszlo Sustainable Value

"there’s nothing quite like staring apocalypse in the eye to humble oneself or a society."Ray Anderson Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist

Flourishing businesses move beyond â€˜doing less harmâ€™ to actively creating conditions where human and ecological well-being thrive.John Ehrenfeld Flourishing: A Frank Conversation

"The challenge we face in creating sustainability demands a lot more of us as individuals and as a society."John R. Ehrenfeld et al. Flourishing

Flourishing - "It’s a vision of a world that works."John R. Ehrenfeld Flourishing

"Profitability may be achievable in the short-term through quick fixes by management and factors outside the scope of employee engagement. But in the long-term, turnover and disloyal customers will have direct financial consequences to the business unit."Flourishing

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