Why Do We Assume Work Must Have "Purpose?"

Is it partially a narrative created because men often have nothing more fun than their professional fiefdom?

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:

“… set your North Star and point employees to the purpose of th…