Why do we assume work must be purposeful?

Ted Bauer
5 min readMay 19, 2022

The rise of thought leadership has given us a few problems. I won’t enumerate them all.

Here’s one, though: every single article about business, business improvement, productivity, leadership, management, etc. contains some variation of this sentence:

“… lead from a place of purpose…”

or maybe:

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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.