Flourishing Enterprises

Transform organizations into flourishing enterprises.

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
“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
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
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
"Each connection is an asset that has been invested through connections."John, Peter McKnight, Block
The Abundant Community
"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
In times of turmoil the danger lies not in the turmoil itself, but in facing it with yesterday’s logic.Peter Drucker
Flourishing businesses move beyond ‘doing less harm’ to actively creating conditions where human and ecological well-being thrive.John Ehrenfeld
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
“Companies that are breaking the mold are moving beyond corporate social responsibility to … social innovation."Chris Laszlo
Sustainable Value
"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
Flourishing businesses align profit with purpose, creating sustainable growth and resilience by addressing social and environmental challenges.Ryan Honeyman
The B Corp Handbook
"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 enterprises embrace regenerative practices, creating positive outcomes for nature and society while growing their bottom line.John Elkington
Green Swans
"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
A flourishing enterprise creates real value for all stakeholders while ensuring people and communities thrive, and nature flourishes. Various Flourishing Enterprise
BizMundi
"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
"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
"Quick fixes are often faddish."Shelley G. Trebesch
Made To FLourish
"organizations can suppress or amplify the human capacity for caring."Monica Worline
Awakening Compassion at Work
Enterprises that choose to flourish ensure the health of natural systems, understanding that their future depends on a thriving planet.Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
"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
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
"there’s nothing quite like staring apocalypse in the eye to humble oneself or a society."Ray Anderson
Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
"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
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