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\u201cCompanies that are breaking the mold are moving beyond corporate social responsibility to \u2026 social innovation.\"<\/span><\/span>Chris Laszlo
<\/span>Sustainable Value<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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\u2010fluid world, to become places where people want to stay because they can pursue their highest aspirations.\"<\/span><\/span>Tal Ben-Shahar
<\/span>The Joy of Leadership<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"there\u2019s nothing quite like staring apocalypse in the eye to humble oneself or a society.\"<\/span><\/span>Ray Anderson
<\/span>Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"We have lost our appetite for big and idealistic plans because so many previous ones have failed so dismally:\"<\/span><\/span>Thomas G. Weiss
<\/span>Global Governance<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"Few people can envision it and even fewer ever aspire to creating such a reality.\"<\/span><\/span>Robert E. Quinn
<\/span>The Positive Organization<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"organizations can suppress or amplify the human capacity for caring.\"<\/span><\/span>Monica Worline
<\/span>Awakening Compassion at Work<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"most important factor in predicting organizational performance\u2014which was more than twice as powerful as any other factor\u2014was the ratio of positive statements to negative statements.\"<\/span><\/span>Kim Cameron
<\/span>Positive Leadership<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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.\"<\/span><\/span>John Seely-Brown
<\/span>The Power of Pull<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Businesses that commit to flourishing experience long-term financial performance, driven by employee engagement and customer satisfaction.<\/span><\/span>Rosabeth Moss Kanter
<\/span>Harvard Business Review<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"instead emphasize positive phenomena\u2014for example, positive emotions, positive opportunities, and positive relationships\u2014in the interest of developing a positive climate in the organization.\"<\/span><\/span>Kim Cameron
<\/span>Positive Leadership<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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.\"<\/span><\/span>David Cooperrider et al.
<\/span>The Business of Building a Better World<\/span><\/span><\/div>
A flourishing enterprise creates real value for all stakeholders while ensuring people and communities thrive, and nature flourishes. <\/span><\/span>Various Flourishing Enterprise
<\/span>BizMundi<\/span><\/span><\/div>
In times of turmoil the danger lies not in the turmoil itself, but in facing it with yesterday\u2019s logic.<\/span><\/span>Peter Drucker<\/span><\/div>
Flourishing businesses foster innovation by embedding purpose and social good into their core strategy, driving both performance and impact.<\/span><\/span>Rosabeth Moss Kanter
<\/span>Harvard Business Review<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Flourishing businesses enable human capabilities, contributing to individual freedom and societal development while achieving sustainable success.<\/span><\/span>Amartya Sen
<\/span>Development as Freedom<\/span><\/span><\/div>
True success in business comes from not only achieving financial goals but from ensuring the flourishing of individuals and society as a whole.<\/span><\/span>Aristotle
<\/span>Philosophy<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Flourishing enterprises are future-fit, empowering employees, encouraging self-management, and aligning with deeper societal and environmental goals.<\/span><\/span>Frederic Laloux
<\/span>Reinventing Organizations<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Companies that pursue flourishing create value not just for shareholders, but for society by solving global challenges through innovation.<\/span><\/span>Michael Porter
<\/span>Shared Value Leadership Summit<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"we need greater impact per person, per dollar\u2014and we need resources to be directed to their highest and best use.\"<\/span><\/span>Leslie R. Crutchfield
<\/span>Forces for Good<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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.\"<\/span><\/span>Diana Whitney et al.
<\/span>Appreciative Leadership<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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.\"<\/span><\/span>Positive Organizational Scholarship<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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.\"
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\r\nDefinition: 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\"<\/span><\/span>Fred Luthans
<\/span>Psychological Capital<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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.<\/span><\/span>Diana Whitney et al.
<\/span>Appreciative Leadership<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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\u2014whether internal to the system or external to the system\u2014there exists the strength combinations and innovation potentials, including consciousness shifts, greater than any organizational challenge or opportunity we will ever face.\"<\/span><\/span>Jacqueline Stavos
<\/span>Conversations Worth Having<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Flourishing enterprises see business as a force for good, delivering long-term benefits for both people and the planet without sacrificing profit.<\/span><\/span>Paul Polman
<\/span>Net Positive<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"almost everything being done in the name of sustainability has been designed to reduce negative impacts rather than contribute to a healthy world.\"<\/span><\/span>Chris Laslo
<\/span>Flourishing Enterprise<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\u201cmore 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.\"<\/span><\/span>Ryan Honeyman et al.
<\/span>The B Corp Handbook<\/span><\/span><\/div>
Businesses can flourish by ensuring the ecosystems they depend on are protected and regenerated, securing a future for all living beings.<\/span><\/span>Jane Goodall
<\/span>The Book of Hope<\/span><\/span><\/div>
A flourishing business creates opportunities where there are none, focusing on people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s well-being and eliminating social inequality.<\/span><\/span>Muhammad Yunus
<\/span>Banker to the Poor<\/span><\/span><\/div>
\"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\u2014through behaviors that influence employee engagement and therefore that increase the frequency of positive emotions.\"<\/span><\/span>Flourishing<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>
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