Passion vs. experience

Employers tend to hire people with experience over people who may be inexperienced but have a great passion for the work. Banks generally lend their money to proven business people taken on proven project types. This is extremely conservative system that slows innovation and change, and I would argue actually produces a lower return on investment.

What if we hired for passion? What if we funded passion, even when unproven? I think this would unlock tremendous potential in our society. We are greatly undervaluing our human capital, satisfied for meager returns because we don't know what's possible.

A person with a genuine passion to produce some real world change will not stop until it is achieve. He or she will figure out how to surmound any obstacle and get the job done, learning what is needed along the way. They will work much harder and without constant supervision than a experience but passionless person.

Let's channel resources to these people and see what happens. In the long run I think we will be amazed at the results and wonder how we could have waited so long to try it.