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"almost everything being done in the name of sustainability has been designed to reduce negative impacts rather than contribute to a healthy world."Chris Laslo
Flourishing Enterprise
A flourishing business creates opportunities where there are none, focusing on people’s well-being and eliminating social inequality.Muhammad Yunus
Banker to the Poor
Flourishing businesses move beyond ‘doing less harm’ to actively creating conditions where human and ecological well-being thrive.John Ehrenfeld
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation
True success in business comes from not only achieving financial goals but from ensuring the flourishing of individuals and society as a whole.Aristotle
Philosophy
"With POB [Positive Organizational Behavior], we are simply trying to recognize and emphasize the largely untapped power that positivity may have in contemporary and future workplaces with a specific emphasis on criteria meeting psychological capacities."

Definition: Positive organizational behavior (POB) is defined as "the study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today's workplace"
Fred Luthans
Psychological Capital
"Positively powerful leadership is a two-sided coin. On one side, it is about being powerful: bringing your best forward, giving voice to what matters to you, and engaging with others in creating a world that works for all. And on the other, it is about helping others to be powerful: knowing their strengths, having confidence and opportunities to share their ideas, and seeking out support, learning, and collaboration to contribute their best.Diana Whitney et al.
Appreciative Leadership
"Each connection is an asset that has been invested through connections."John, Peter McKnight, Block
The Abundant Community
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
Businesses that commit to flourishing experience long-term financial performance, driven by employee engagement and customer satisfaction.Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business Review
A flourishing enterprise creates real value for all stakeholders while ensuring people and communities thrive, and nature flourishes. Various Flourishing Enterprise
BizMundi
"organizations can suppress or amplify the human capacity for caring."Monica Worline
Awakening Compassion at Work
"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
"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
"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
"Management activities − the activities associated with the strategic planning of Lean and embedding a culture of Lean into an organization.
• Prepare − the processes associated with scoping individual Lean activities.
• Roadmap − creation of a high-level plan for major projects.
• Implement − planning and implementation of changes to processes, products and services.
• Sustain − this is concerned with implementing a concept of ‘improvement every day’ as well as embedding any changes made during the implementation phase."
Mark Eaton
The Lean Practitioner's Handbook
Flourishing businesses enable human capabilities, contributing to individual freedom and societal development while achieving sustainable success.Amartya Sen
Development as Freedom
"Few people can envision it and even fewer ever aspire to creating such a reality."Robert E. Quinn
The Positive Organization
“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
"Quick fixes are often faddish."Shelley G. Trebesch
Made To FLourish
"An achievement like that will, among other things, call upon investments and innovation in areas as different as building smart cities, transforming vast mobility industries, propelling the renewable energy economy, creating circular and regenerative approaches to manufacturing, turning waste into wealth, and building out regenerative agriculture and new food systems."David Cooperrider et al.
The Business of Building a Better World
"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
"We have lost our appetite for big and idealistic plans because so many previous ones have failed so dismally:"Thomas G. Weiss
Global Governance
"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
"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
"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
"there’s nothing quite like staring apocalypse in the eye to humble oneself or a society."Ray Anderson
Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
"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
"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
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
Flourishing - "It’s a vision of a world that works."John R. Ehrenfeld
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"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


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