Managing+with+Passion

The questions that Organizational scholars have been asking for the last century all deal with how to make organizations more rational, more productive, and more humane, in an instrumental way. Organizational scholarship has largely been rational, scientistic, objective, intellectual, and instrumental. It has ignored aesthetic inquiry, sensory embodied and tacit knowledge that can make organizations more passionate, artistic, beautiful and happy.

In Western cultures "passion" is suspect, denounced as being dangerous, irrational, crazy and extremist. It is to be avoided by managers and organizations. Passion is relegated to realms of art, love, and suffering.

Ironically, no great human feat was ever accomplished without passion.

Passion refers to holistic and intense intellectual, physical, and emotional engagement of goals. In goal seeking organizations passion can be a defining element. This page is designed to help readers to experience passion and its relevance to managing and organizing. Passion cannot just be "explained" intellectually, it must be experienced with body, mind, and emotions. There are many ways and modalities that one can use to experience it - Art, Music, Dance, Sports, and even work. To engage something with our mind, body and spirit, we need to consider who we are. Authenticity lies at the core of passionate experience.

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