Hello Friends, this is my maiden effort to put my thoughts in this format. Considering this being the first step towards my long time dream to put my views and opinions on topics of wider public interest, I am really not much bothered about the literary value of this post. So please forgive me if anybody gets the disappointment on this front.
Motivation, I would like to replace it with “Passion”. As I see the world, all of us get the motivation “to do” or “not to do” a particular task or action based on the degree of passion we are having. All of us can go back to our memory lanes and can easily pick up the incidents from our lives, where we have demonstrated this. Someone of us might be passionate about playing cricket or going out for movies at our school days and definitely bunked the classes for the cause which he/she thought is more compelling than studies. From where we have got the courage to do all this, to my mind this is generated by the passion we had for our interests.
No matter how difficult the task is if we are passionate about it then we always create the ways to accomplish our task and universe helps us in this. As Paulo Coelho said in “The alchemist” “when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” I have experience this in my life and I am sure every one of us must have also experienced this at some point in their lives.
Whether it is personal or professional arena, “passion” is the key to success. For achieving our personal or professional targets/goals or outcomes, passion towards them is the primary force which gives the momentum to reach our destiny.
I believe that each one us have passion for one or the other thing, some of us are aware and some may not be. We may be passionate about range of things, what I believe is the decisive factor in being successful or not is the way we appreciate our passions and work towards them.
In an organizational setup there are different roles to be accomplished by different persons with different passions. From an organizational perspective if the person doing a specific job is passionate about that, then organizational success is inevitable.
Now the biggest question would be how to get the persons with equal high degree of passion. To my mind one way would be check the level of passion in general at the time of selection, and it is quite possible these days as there are number of tools available. And secondly degree of passion may be increased in the existing employee base by aligning their personal success and satisfaction with the overall organizational success. I know this is easier said than done, however the organizations are knowingly or unknowingly addressing this through constant efforts in learning & developmental or OD interventions.
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