Flourishing Enterprises

Transform organizations into flourishing enterprises.

Quotes

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
"We have lost our appetite for big and idealistic plans because so many previous ones have failed so dismally:"Thomas G. Weiss
Global Governance
"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
"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
"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
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
"organizations can suppress or amplify the human capacity for caring."Monica Worline
Awakening Compassion at Work
"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
Flourishing businesses enable human capabilities, contributing to individual freedom and societal development while achieving sustainable success.Amartya Sen
Development as Freedom
"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
"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
Flourishing businesses move beyond ‘doing less harm’ to actively creating conditions where human and ecological well-being thrive.John Ehrenfeld
Flourishing: A Frank Conversation
"there’s nothing quite like staring apocalypse in the eye to humble oneself or a society."Ray Anderson
Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
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
"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
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