Are Your Employees Passionate?

I worked for a start-up once that listed as one of its items on the company mission statement, Have Fun. The company wasn’t fun. The executives weren’t fun. In fact, they didn’t respect employees or treat people fairly. They didn’t empower people or appreciate hard work. Do you think they thought adding Have Fun to the mission statement would make us all believe it was a fun place to work?

Kathy Sierra writes “Remember, when I say I have a passion for a particular piece of software, it’s not really the software I’m passionate about. It’s always about my passion for what the software lets me DO. Companies should work the same way. By acting like a good UI and letting employees express the passion they have for their work, you’ll end up with employees who’d never consider going elsewhere.”

Right on.

The rest of the article is worth reading.