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THE MAKING OF ABUNDANCE

tight it helps to know that small and simple pleasures spread
over time have more impact on our sense of well-being than
grand one-time gestures. 13

PRINCIPLE 7
Abundant organizations attend not only to outward demographic
diversity but also to the diversity of what makes individuals feel
happy, cared for, and excited about life.

Organizational Application

Much of what brings meaning into our personal and profes-
sional lives can be categorized under the preceding seven
headings. When leaders help employees explore these ques-
tions, they help create abundant organizations with positive
individual and organization results:

• • Higher commitment, better employee health, improved
productivity and retention 14
• • A leadership brand that builds investor confidence 15
• • Increased customer commitment (because customer atti-
tudes about an organization correlate with the attitudes
of its employees)
• • Increased investor confidence in future earnings and
higher market value (based on intangible assets like lead-
ership and quality of employees)
• • Improved community reputation, merited by stronger
social responsibility.

Table 2.2 provides an organizational assessment tool
for abundance to help leaders parse out the components of

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