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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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

"Quick fixes are often faddish."Shelley G. Trebesch Made To FLourish

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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

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

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