Passion vs Structure
(another nugget from Start With Why)
Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Apple, General Electric, Ford (and almost every other company that made it big) all started small. Nearly every company or organization starts the same way: with an idea. Whether an organization becomes a multibillion-dollar corporation or fails in the first few years, most of them started with a single person or small group of people who had an idea. Even the United States of American started the same way.
Initially ideas are fueled by passion, a very compelling emotion that causes us to do quite irrational things. That passion drives some people to make sacrifices so that a cause bigger than themselves can be brought to life. This passion is so intoxicating and exciting that it can affect others as well.
The reason so many small businesses fail, however, is because passion alone can't cut it. For passion to survive, it needs structure. A WHY without the HOWs, passion without structure, has a very high probability of failure. Passion may need structure to survive, but for structure to grow, it needs passion.
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Tom L. Hofmeister
Bold Innovations
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Things that make you go hmmm...
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