Shari Arison - The Doing Good Model: Activate Your Goodness in Business

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 Arisons 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 Arisons 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. Sharis work shows how this can be done.

Dr. ngel 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 Arsions 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 Models 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 Whats 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 peoples 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

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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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 enterprisesMoral and ethical aspects. 3. Business ethics. 4. CorporationsCharitable contributions. I. Title.

HD60.A753 2015

658.408dc23

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, present, or future, whos been involved in the creation and implementation of the Doing Good Model. You are all greatly appreciated.

Contents

SECTION ONE
Activate Your Goodness Through Vision & Values

SECTION TWO
Activate Your Goodness Through Individual Prosperity

SECTION THREE
Activate Your Goodness While Attaining Win-Win

SECTION FOUR
Activate Your Goodness: A Broader Scope of Influence

SECTION FIVE
Platforms for Creating a Better World

From Caterpillar to Butterfly

Transformation is a subject I have breathed and lived for most of my life. Some people might say I had it easyI inherited a fortune. But its like they always say: its not what you have that matters, but what you do with it. This book is about what I did with it.

I always wanted to make a difference in the world, and Im on a constant path of personal growth and transformation. Having spent thirty years leading in philanthropy and overlapping the last fifteen years running a global business, I learned that together, these two worlds form a huge platform for positive change. Because my company operates in more than forty countries on five continents with thousands of people in our global workforce, we have an incredible impact.

In order to create long-term sustainable change, I knew I had to engage the right people who formed the right teams to create strategy and implementation. My goal was to introduce a values-based perspective in order to transform all of my business entities, because I knew in my heart even then that all of my holdings would have to be congruent with my own moral compass. I knew this change would be possible with vision, never giving up, and by being a personal example to others.

Anyone who knows me knows that when I have a vision, followed by a deep calling in my gut, nothing will stop my persistence in making it happen. It has taken time, but together weve been able to create a model that has turned into our organizational compass.

Now we have a practical, and yet elated, guide to follow. Its a business model that has grown from within and matured over time, a model that guides us at the Arison Group in our daily work, making decisions and acting upon them. Because we feel that everything we do focuses on doing good, it was easy to come up with a name: