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If falling in love with the people with whom you work is a crime, I want to be guilty.  I’m an unashamed fan of work well done, inspired leaders and motivated people.  Awe, to me, does not go with shock, it belongs with words like brilliance, trust, accomplishment and courage.

Love and Profit, written by James A. Autry in the 90′s, was considered a ground-breaker in the thinking that love and profit actually go together in the corporate world.  This still remains to be seen.  Steve Farber wrote about it in The Radical Leap and it is the focus of The Go-Giver, which I looooooved. (Did I say  the word Love again?)

I’m going to ask you to reflect on those with whom you surround yourself and take stock of your genuine feelings.  If you find that you really like who you like, that it is flattery just to collaborate and freeing to voice opinions because they not only have a place at the table but spark innovation – then you are also in loving relationships that just might impact the rest of your life.

They also may impact other peoples’ lives by creating better products, services, more beautiful songs or poetic words.

But most assuredly they will transform your present experience.  If there is a choice, and there is, I’d rather live in love.