Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business

The notion of responsible business has infiltrated our markets, and"going green" is now a part of our mindset. But, sustainability as we know it is not enough. Flourishing - the aspiration that humans and life in general will thrive on the planet forever - should be a key goal for every business today. This is a bold concept, like sustainability was a decade ago. Just as sustainability has become a matter of course, so too will flourishing become a cornerstone of business tomorrow. How are companies to attain this big-picture goal?

Drawing together decades of research along with in-depth interviews, Flourishing Enterprise argues that many strategic, organizational, and operational efforts to be sustainable reach the potential of flourishing when they incorporate one additional ingredient: reflective practices. Offering more than a dozen such practices, this book leads readers down a path to greaterfind that adding reflective practices to existing business efforts does not require more work; it simply changes the way we do our work and, more importantly, the results we achieve.

Cultivating emotional and spiritual health is the next frontier; this future-oriented guide develops these core competencies while stretching the ongoing conversation about profitable, sustainable business.

Book Details

• Authors: Chris Laszlo, Judy Sorum Brown
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• eBook ISBN: 9780804793506, 0804793506
• Print ISBN: 9780804789134, 0804789134