Flourishing Enterprises

Transform organizations into flourishing enterprises.

Quotes

"Each connection is an asset that has been invested through connections."John, Peter McKnight, Block
The Abundant Community
"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
Flourishing enterprises embrace regenerative practices, creating positive outcomes for nature and society while growing their bottom line.John Elkington
Green Swans
“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 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
Enterprises that choose to flourish ensure the health of natural systems, understanding that their future depends on a thriving planet.Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
"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
"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
"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
"Quick fixes are often faddish."Shelley G. Trebesch
Made To FLourish
"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
Flourishing businesses move beyond ‘doing less harm’ to actively creating conditions where human and ecological well-being thrive.John Ehrenfeld
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation
"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
"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
"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
"We have lost our appetite for big and idealistic plans because so many previous ones have failed so dismally:"Thomas G. Weiss
Global Governance
Flourishing enterprises see business as a force for good, delivering long-term benefits for both people and the planet without sacrificing profit.Paul Polman
Net Positive
"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
"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
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
Businesses that commit to flourishing experience long-term financial performance, driven by employee engagement and customer satisfaction.Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business Review
"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
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
"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
"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
In times of turmoil the danger lies not in the turmoil itself, but in facing it with yesterday’s logic.Peter Drucker
"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
“Companies that are breaking the mold are moving beyond corporate social responsibility to … social innovation."Chris Laszlo
Sustainable Value
Flourishing businesses align profit with purpose, creating sustainable growth and resilience by addressing social and environmental challenges.Ryan Honeyman
The B Corp Handbook
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