Quotes

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

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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

"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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

"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

“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

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

"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

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