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Our passions are what we carry with us into the workplace, where they can be nourished, groomed, and released. |
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Problem Solving
How many of us work in problem-free environments? How many of us would be needed if our place of work was problem-free? Any day on a good job is like being a detective.
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Innovation
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged." -- Thomas EdisonFor every idea in life where someone says "been there, done that" or "that is so-o-o-o 2006" there is another idea that has not been tried before. Sometimes they can come to life in a basement or a garage, other times they require millions of dollars and tens of thousands of hours to breathe and grow. Not every idea can succeed. Not every idea that can succeed will succeed. Every idea that remains an idea will fail.
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Teaching
In some way, we are all teachers, whether formally in classrooms, or informally in one-on-one conversations. I view teaching in a lot of ways, from a number of perspectives. Boiled down, my philosophy is that teaching accomplishes one of two objectives. - Help someone to learn something, or do something they've never done before
- Help someone get better at something they already know how to do
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The Arts
There are those who believe the arts have nothing to do with doing business. Perhaps that is true if your product is so in demand naturally that people line up at your front door to buy without any enticement (or perhaps you own a monopoly on air). The hard truth, for the non-believers, is that business cannot survive if completely severed from the arts. Graphic arts entice buyers to pull packages from the shelves, to turn into a specific parking lot instead of another. The art of words carries a plethora of messages to the eyes, ears, and minds of potential customers. Music and visual arts capture a potential buyer's imagination, turning "I'll think about that" into "I need that."
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Passions
