The managerial refrain: “I’m not a goddamn therapist.”

Ted Bauer
4 min readAug 17, 2021

You know, I’ve long been fascinated by how “compassion” fits into the general idea of work — I even blogged about the intersection point of compassion and profits years ago. At the same time, I’m fascinated by what “accountability” means to different people, because to a lot of managers I’ve observed, it seems to just mean “a tactic for scaring people.” I think it’s supposed to mean a healthy…

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.