For individuals, passion is strength.

The ability to power through the dip of despair to the other side; to stick with it when others may give up.

But as an organization scales, each individual's passion becomes a liability; a thing they will steamroll on even if the organization wants them to pull in a different direction.

Passion is a kind of agency with a vector; if the agent is forced to go in a different direction the motive force drops precipitously.

The individual will try to swing related things to align with their passion.

This is one of the reasons that as organizations get larger they emergently try to capture employees as undifferentiated parts of the machine, not individuals with a particular passion.

An org that is going in a coherent, useful direction and also most individuals are aligned with their passion / flow state is a sight to behold.