Passion
Our company started a new initiative called EPIC - Employee Passion Indicator Count. I will not divulge the secret on how it is done, but would like to share the philosophy behind it (or what I think is the reason why they started it). Why would a big, successful and reputed organization care about employee passion? What is passion in the first place? Dictionary defines it as “a strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything” (for theology buffs, it also means suffering of a martyr). So what? Why is it so important for an organization? In my opinion each and every person on this earth has passion - passionate about something or some one. I think people can not exist without passion. At the minimum people are passionate about living. Every day I see John getting into the bus to go to work. First time I saw him almost six months ago, I wanted to ask him why he takes so much trouble to go to work every day. A little bit of background about...