Tapping into Passion

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  wconsugar04/05/07 Report as spam
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  great

  This is a very informative article and I can relate to some of the scenarios. I want to go get the book at the bottom. Thanks!

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  siamaksz@...04/05/07 Report as spam
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  Tapping into Passion

  We share the same perspective on effective Career and Passion alignment. That's what inspired us to create careerspice.com-an innovative online job search that utilizes a deeper profiling system with Passion? at its core. We believe aligning Passion? with Work brings the discovery of new frontiers in Productivity, Creativity and Happiness and thus, Performance. A win-win for both job seeker and employer.
  
  Siamak Z. Salimpour
  founder
  www.careerspice.com

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  ddrumsr04/05/07 Report as spam
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  Food for thought

  There is a fine balance when it comes to unbridled passion and completing the tasks at hand. While it is the manager's responsibility to tap into an individuals passion, the employee must take personal responsibility to achieve clearly defined mutual goals.
  
  A good manager can find the proper balance when working with a reasonable employee.

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  charles.duncan01@...04/05/07 Report as spam
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  Career DNA is a fact.

  I enjoyed the article and repeat an ancient, yet worthy, prescription-know
  thyself. My career fit was clarified with a new tool called careerndna.net. It's
  easy and helpful.

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  lavonns@...04/06/07 Report as spam
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  Great article but passion isn't enough

  Great article. From personal experience I know that passion is a critical element for many people. The challenge as always is confusing passion for talent & ability. As a consultant I have witnessed the havoc a passionate person can cause. Too many times I have heard a senior manager (even CEOs) say, "Their heart is in the right place." Unless they are paired with a capable team who shares the passion not only will nothing get done...but much will be undone internally and in the marketplace.

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  charles.duncan01@...05/02/07 Report as spam
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  What is passion without . . .

  alignment with objectives. As any consultant knows, the ability of a company
  to manage passion is a leadership priority. What companies seem to be
  seeking is a "tool" that provides some degree of predictable success in
  aligning talent, skills and passion. That match drives the human capital
  equation toward retention and revenue.

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  lavonns@...04/06/07 Report as spam
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  Great article but passion isn't enough

  Great article. From personal experience I know that passion is a critical element for many people. The challenge as always is confusing passion for talent & ability. As a consultant I have witnessed the havoc a passionate person can cause. Too many times I have heard a senior manager (even CEOs) say, "Their heart is in the right place." Unless they are paired with a capable team who shares the passion not only will nothing get done...but much will be undone internally and in the marketplace.
  
  LaVonn Schlegel
  JSMI Consulting, LLC.
  www.frogblog.com/biz

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  insightbusinessconsultancy@...04/10/07 Report as spam
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  Team Passion ?

  I fully endorse the views in the article about individual passion. However, is not team passion more important? If a unit made up of several individuals latches onto a challenging goal and leverages all available resources in its pursuit, it can achieve far more than one fired-up individual. But is team passion merely the sum of individual passions directed at a single goal?

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  a.bobovnicky@...04/17/07 Report as spam
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  Team or Individual Passion

  I was rather well surprised by the article and must confirm that there is no team passion without individual one. And quastion if it is only one team member or all is only partly relevant - you have to have a spark to ignite the engeene - and one passionate team memeber can do this job very effectively. It is responsibility of team leader to support this ignition throught other team mebers in a way described in the article (and many other ways...)

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  charles.duncan01@...05/02/07 Report as spam
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  Team passion fueled by . . .

  team players and the balance of individual team members, their skills, their
  experience and ultimately their contributions. The recipe for team success is a
  "secret sauce" which management must consciously render in order to
  enhance outcomes.