Every so often business is thought of mostly as big companies, CEO’s, marketing, finance and accountants, but as we look around business is everywhere from a bakery shops to charities. Our world works on exchanging one product for another and that exchange is the essence of business, where functional organizations are formed to enable an exchange of money for a product.

As a reply to Michelle Lee’s “ Work+ Passion = Possibility?” blog I agree with her that we are able to incorporate our passions in our business. This has become even more apparent when former Sauder student, Tom Dobrzanski, came to our class to discuss how he founded his own music productions company on passion and built it using the skills he had acquired form his business school. Having grown from his parent’s basement to producing well known Vancouver based bands such as Said the Whale, Hey Ocean! and We are the City Tom has come a long way in his business as well as his own band, The Zolas.

As a fan of indie music myself and having seen Said the Whale, Hey Ocean! and We are the City all multiple times in concert it has been interesting seeing how Tom worked behind the scenes with his business skills to enable growth of these bands and to nourish his own passion for music.

In response to : https://blogs.ubc.ca/michellelee3/2012/11/15/work-and-passion-possibility/