Sustainable Happy Profit Quotes

“Create an organization that is regenerative by design, fair and just, where its contributions are greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Being a sustainable, happy and profitable organisation goes beyond checklists and execution of responsibility. It’s a deep partnership of the whole, across your value chain, employees, customers and community.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Having the awareness of organisations being operating systems, you can then look beyond the mechanism of an organisation to the organism.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“When we do know that in fact, the beginning of a project is when you know the least that you are ever going to know about it. Instead, shift from discovery to diagnosis.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Bureaucracy creep is the act of slowly and steadily increasing an excessively complicated administrative procedure, which happens unnoticed. Can take many forms like little process changes, extra steps, policy updates… This slows you down.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“A tree is known by its fruits. The worth of our products, services and organisations is determined by others based on what is produced and visible to the world. Impact is what matters.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“You are measured on the value that you deliver, not on what’s been done.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Today’s competitive advantage is basically based on two key things: The first is the speed to market with persistent experimentation, and then the second is the ability to swiftly transform some of those experimental business ideas into fully-fledged products and services.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“One of the key elements of circular economy thinking is designing-out waste, including and especially from the product inception phase.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Our economic world is a human invention, with the intention to organize ourselves in big numbers. How can we expect it to grow endlessly, when in fact the Earth is finite?”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“It starts with why. We need a purpose to create long term value, where gains are fairly distributed and where we leave the place better than how we found it.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Have a simple, transparent, equal and fair system of opportunities.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“The fruit of diversity is collective creativity, reaching new highs, an enriched perspective and a boost of entrepreneurial energy.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Companies in the top quartile for diverse leadership teams outperformed less diverse peers on profitability.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“To be able to co-create in your organisation, you need to connect information and relationships, both to be driven by transparency and fairness, focus on learning and what is achieved—rather than just what it’s been done.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“What we often face is a very deep attachment to our ideas, which without perspective in turn drives private agendas and generates silos.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“We must move our operating systems away from directing the work of others by doing and controlling. Instead, we must move towards enabling; liberating creativity and holding ourselves accountable to the results we have committed to—not we have had imposed upon us.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Invest in having and conveying a vision worth contributing to.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Being part of something meaningful opens up possibilities. We pursue contributions greater than ourselves.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“The fundamental attribution error, where we tend to read others’ actions on a negative incline which we directly relate to their character and their personality.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“We get tangled in routines of the day to day, going through the motions, just as we did yesterday and foresee ourselves doing the next day. This spoils any chances to be better.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“When we are presented with complications and unexpected changes, we have the tendency to become more rigid and more bureaucratic.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Think about management to support rather than dictate. Be there to serve, to unblock obstacles, not to tell people what to do and how to do it.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“To become more aware of this behavioral tendency, we need to observe and acknowledge how sustainable performance is rewarded; find out what are the consistency of practices and how real is the dimension of organizational values against its daily operations?”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Companies with a culture of employee recognition, where employees feel that their contributions matter, perform better and have less employee turnover than those that don’t.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Improving employee happiness raises sales by 37%, productivity by 31% and accuracy of task completion by 19%.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Employee Experience (EX) is still not embedded into the majority of daily operations. If we correlate EX to User Experience (UX) or Customer Experience (CX) there is much of the holistic picture missing.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“My theory is that more often than not, we are guilty of being oblivious of feelings.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Let’s not neglect the emotional aspect when managing the cognitive one.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“On the other side of the coin, someone once said that stress makes people stupid.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit