Chapter 16PASSION Encourage It
The work was okay, but my heart wasn’t in it.
—A.J.
Do you help your employees find the work they love to do? It may not always be easy, and you may even risk losing some of them. But if you don’t partner with your talented employees to find work they are passionate about, you will no doubt lose them anyway.
Choose a job you love, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.
—Confucius
Passion for work means that people find what they do to be so exciting that it sometimes doesn’t even feel like work—so exciting that it brings exhilaration, a “high.” Granted, even those who have this passion seldom have it every day—but they do know that feeling, and they know when they lose it.
People Are Passionate
Do you ...
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