Quotes

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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 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

"Few people can envision it and even fewer ever aspire to creating such a reality."Robert E. Quinn The Positive Organization

"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

"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

"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

"It is not only that we live in a universe of strengths and unlimited human imaginations, but surrounding every change situation we are part of—whether internal to the system or external to the system—there exists the strength combinations and innovation potentials, including consciousness shifts, greater than any organizational challenge or opportunity we will ever face."Jacqueline Stavos Conversations Worth Having

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

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

"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

“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

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

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

Flourishing businesses enable human capabilities, contributing to individual freedom and societal development while achieving sustainable success.Amartya Sen Development as Freedom

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 enterprises embrace regenerative practices, creating positive outcomes for nature and society while growing their bottom line.John Elkington Green Swans

To thrive in the 21st century, businesses must adopt a flourishing mindset, focusing on ecological regeneration and equitable value distribution.Kate Raworth Doughnut Economics

"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

"We have lost our appetite for big and idealistic plans because so many previous ones have failed so dismally:"Thomas G. Weiss Global Governance

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

"Everyone has a voice but not a vote. Top CEOs recognize that there is an art to gathering input as part of the decision-making process. Yet they do not wait for consensus."Elena L. Botelho The CEO Next Door

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

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