Praise for The Doing Good Model: Activate Your Goodness in Business
“The Doing Good Model is built on a solid truth: that our definition of success must include well-being, not only for individuals but for the workplace. Based on thirteen specific values, Shari Arison expands our understanding of what it means to do well in business, and shows that if leaders build their companies around these values, there will be a powerful alignment between their own well-being, the companies’ bottom line, and the good of the planet.”
Arianna Huffington Chair, President, and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group
“Shari Arison’s book shows how enlightened business leaders who align positive economic, social, and cultural business values into their core business practices have the potential to transform our world.”
Dr. Rakesh Khurana Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School
“Shari Arison’s example of practicing moral responsibility in business is one that we want to share with our students, as they begin the next phase of their lives. Our vision for our graduates is that they will be engaged and ethically-oriented citizens, committed to building a just, free and prosperous world. Shari’s work shows how this can be done.”
Dr. Ángel Cabrera President, George Mason University
“The Doing Good Model is a necessary call to action, and provides a powerful lesson to next generation management about how philanthropy and business go hand in hand. Shari Arsion’s vision for an ethical corporate world is as inspiring as it is achievable.”
Dr. Gregory Unruh Endowed Professor Doing Good Values, George Mason University
“The Doing Good Model’s practical approach enables people from any background to effectively voice their values and positively act on them, drawing the best from them, fueling creativity, confidence, and skill.”
Dr. Mary Gentile PhD, Author of Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right
“Touching on the many dimensions of negotiation strategy and planning, the Doing Good Model brings enormous impact by making values-based connections that bridge different outlooks. As it ripples out across the world, the model promotes the ultimate goal of win-win situations in business.”
Dr. Karen Walch Emeritus Faculty, Thunderbird School of Global Management of ASU
“Within just a few days of the Doing Good Model workshop, I saw a definitive shift in people’s use of words, and in their openness and sharing of values. I saw true transformation.”
Debra Wheat Executive Editor, Values + Sustainability, Nomadic Learning and Lead Ambassador for the Oath Project
ACTIVATE YOUR GOODNESS
IN BUSINESS
Shari Arison
BenBella Books, Inc.
Dallas, TX
This book is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information about entrepreneurship and business ideas. Neither the author nor the publisher is engaged in rendering legal accounting, or other professional services, by publishing this book. If any such assistance is required, the services of a qualified financial professional should be sought. The author and publisher will not be responsible for any liability, loss, or risk incurred as a result of the use and application of any information contained in this book.
Copyright © 2015 by Shari Arison
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First e-book edition: May 2015
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Arison, Shari, 1957–
The doing good model : activate your goodness in business / Shari Arison.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-941631-23-2 (hardback)—ISBN 978-1-941631-24-9 (electronic)
1. Social responsibility of business. 2. Business enterprises—Moral and ethical aspects. 3. Business ethics. 4. Corporations—Charitable contributions. I. Title.
HD60.A753 2015
658.4’08—dc23
2014046617
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This book is dedicated to all the chairmen, CEOs, board members, management teams, and employees of the Arison Group business companies and philanthropic organization, as well as the universities and professors, advisors and facilitators, and anyone else, in the past,
