I was reading this post from a new blog I found tonight called Employee Evolution – post from Fortune Mag tonight.

I got to thinking – if I’m ever put in charge of a company, not sure that will ever happen, but if I do…I think I’ll really strive for this.  I’m not sure how it would work – but I think the building blocks are just having happy people working there.

Now happy is not really enough – they have to be happy, passionate people.  But if you have those two things – I’m not sure how you can lose.  Because the passionate, happy people I know are wonderful.

They get so much done and are so much more productive than the non-happy, or worse non-passionate ones.  The worst kind are passion people in a bad place, I’ve been there too…many times.

Passionate, non-happy people are destructive.  Why?  They have gangs.  What? Gangs?  Yes, these are people who have charisma and a posse.  They can undermine forward progress quicker than you can imagine.  And it’s the worst kind of destructive – it is deep and wide.

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So, if you come across a company I am running someday – look for the one with casual day every day and ping pong tables in the lobby.  We don’t need no stinking lobby – but we do need ping pong tables.