Quotes

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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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 businesses move beyond â€˜doing less harmâ€™ to actively creating conditions where human and ecological well-being thrive.John Ehrenfeld Flourishing: A Frank Conversation

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

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 businesses foster innovation by embedding purpose and social good into their core strategy, driving both performance and impact.Rosabeth Moss Kanter Harvard Business Review

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

"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

"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

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

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

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