You don’t need passion

• People think passion has to come from being excited about the tasks you perform. It doesn’t. There are 6 ways to derive passion from your work: Task passion, achievement passion, creative passion, people passion, learning passion and competence passion.
• Purpose is about creati...

As a solo founder, I started off by breaking one of the cardinal VC rules that says you can’t build a successful startup on your own. Never mind the research that says solo-founded companies ar...

• It’s a basic axiom that people do better work when they find that work meaningful. Bosses who take this to mean that it is their job to provide purpose tend to overstep. 
• Insisting that people have passion for their job can place unnecessary pressure on both boss and employee.