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"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
Enterprises that choose to flourish ensure the health of natural systems, understanding that their future depends on a thriving planet.Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
"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
Flourishing businesses align profit with purpose, creating sustainable growth and resilience by addressing social and environmental challenges.Ryan Honeyman
The B Corp Handbook
Businesses that commit to flourishing experience long-term financial performance, driven by employee engagement and customer satisfaction.Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business Review
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
"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
"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 challenge we face in creating sustainability demands a lot more of us as individuals and as a society."John R. Ehrenfeld et al.
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Flourishing businesses enable human capabilities, contributing to individual freedom and societal development while achieving sustainable success.Amartya Sen
Development as Freedom
"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
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
“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
Flourishing businesses move beyond ‘doing less harm’ to actively creating conditions where human and ecological well-being thrive.John Ehrenfeld
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation
A flourishing enterprise creates real value for all stakeholders while ensuring people and communities thrive, and nature flourishes. Various Flourishing Enterprise
BizMundi
"organizations can suppress or amplify the human capacity for caring."Monica Worline
Awakening Compassion at Work
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
"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
Flourishing enterprises embrace regenerative practices, creating positive outcomes for nature and society while growing their bottom line.John Elkington
Green Swans
"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 enterprises are future-fit, empowering employees, encouraging self-management, and aligning with deeper societal and environmental goals.Frederic Laloux
Reinventing Organizations
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
"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
"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
"We have lost our appetite for big and idealistic plans because so many previous ones have failed so dismally:"Thomas G. Weiss
Global Governance
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 - "It’s a vision of a world that works."John R. Ehrenfeld
Flourishing
"Few people can envision it and even fewer ever aspire to creating such a reality."Robert E. Quinn
The Positive Organization
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