Passion Is The Most Important Ingredient Of Success

Leadership greatness starts and ends with passion…

Have you ever worked 24 hours with barely a rest or food, and walked away feeling energized? That’s PASSION. Passion is the most important ingredient of success. Passion comes when what you do is in alignment with who you are, and you get energy from doing it. Passion is the energy that comes from bringing more of you, into what you do. It’s like water flowing along its natural riverbed. It actually gains energy from the path it is taking.

Passion in the workplace is the same. In a recent Harvard Business Review article they confirmed, “Passion is the most important ingredient of success.” The HBR article went on to say, “Our research confirms that passion is key to achieving sustained extreme performance improvement.” Primary HBR researcher Mitch McCrummon went on to say, “we have the ability to make change happen ourselves, passion plays a huge roll in this.”

Passion is love for what you do and those around you and respect for common purpose and shared goals for your team. Regularly articulating these shared goals and success-driven metrics will help create passion for the mission and company. It is the responsibility of the leadership team to provide company vision and do so in a transparent way that reinforces the mission. By doing so creates company passion, growth and energy like never before. Like water flowing along its natural riverbed, a company living its vision, measuring it frequently and transparently, will gain energy.

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion” –Hebbel

“Follow your passion and success will follow” – Terri Guillemets

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel” – Carl Buechner

Working, managing, leading and building world-class teams begins with a clearly articulated vision that is passion filled, straight-forward, actionable and realistic. Earl Nightengale said it best, “The more intensely you feel about an idea or goal, the more assuredly the idea buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along a path, to its successful fulfillment.”

Committing to a cause, be it business, family, group or team, and bringing a well informed and articulated plan will create passion. Passion that can over-power obstacles like never before creates growth and a team that lives and brings a success-driven mindset to all they do.