Passion is inevitable

In the last two weeks of February 2011, I met at least 50 new interesting people. Many of them are business owners and leaders. While interacting with them it is reconfirmed or rediscovered that "Passion" has a significant place in the success of a business.

It emerges that Passion is a pre-requisite for business. It is one of the primary investments of business owners . It is an invisible ingredient. It provides a compelling reason to stay on purpose and it ignites the desire to serve a greater cause than profit alone. Passion leads to care for something. If any person fails, it is because they are unable to care. The caring attitude stems from passion.

In an economic context it appears now that passion is important though it is intangible. A passion for business (making profits and gains) and passion for serving a higher purpose ( creating valuable results) is seen among most of the successful business owners.

Jack Kahl the erstwhile Owner of Manco Inc - a successful duct tape company in America (now known as Henkel Manco) used to go for lectures to colleges and other business gatherings. one of his favourite speech was titled as " Don't park your heart at the Curb", which indicates that a great work is accomplished by involving the heart (which is passion).

I have seen many universities mentioning about "passion' as requirement, but did not yet found it as a part of curriculum in any of the Business schools. In the real world of business and leading, passion plays an integral role. Hence it is important to ask the question. Can passion be taught? difficult to answer, but it is transferable and evokable. A business leader has to have passion and then transfer it to others or has to awaken in others for the cause. Great leaders do this.

When a group of people are passionate about a unified cause... social capital builds. Social capital is one of the prime capitals required for business success in the modern times.

How to do this may be saved for another blog... of if you have answers welcome... if you put it in your blog ... please send the link....

have passion... preserve it... nourish it....

contributed by : Sasikanth Prabhu