April 3: The Price of Passion in Entrepreneurship (Yahoo! Finance)
April 3, 2014
The idea that following our passions will bring us career and financial success is such a common refrain in our culture that it's become a cliché -- but is it really true? Two researchers at the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business, Violet T. Ho and Jeffrey M. Pollack, recently found that too much passion, which they call "obsessive," can actually hurt entrepreneurs and negatively affect their ability to network and earn income.
"I think there's a misunderstanding among practitioners that passion is always something positive. But if passion is pushed too far..."