Quotes

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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 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

"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

"With POB [Positive Organizational Behavior], we are simply trying to recognize and emphasize the largely untapped power that positivity may have in contemporary and future workplaces with a specific emphasis on criteria meeting psychological capacities." Definition: Positive organizational behavior (POB) is defined as "the study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and psychological capacities that can be measured, developed, and effectively managed for performance improvement in today's workplace"Fred Luthans Psychological Capital

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

"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

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