A short monologue (YouTube short) by Ashish Kothari arguing that because people spend most of their lives at work, work should enable flourishing and meaning. If employees are miserable or merely neutral at work, that represents a failure of leadership; leaders should help people thrive so their lives aren't largely empty.
Chapters
You know, we are such kindred spirits, which is we spend so much of our time at work. And I most people just think about it as work. They don't think about it as life. They just think, yeah, I work so I can live my life. And I'm like, but you are living your life. Most of your life is being spent at work. And so if you are not thriving at work, if you're not flourishing, if it's not helping you grow into the best version of you, how are you not wasting your life? Right? And I think that's where they're both your responsibility in it of how you make meaning. But also I think when people don't find meaning at work, I think it's a failure of leadership. Is this that exactly as you said? Right. We want people to thrive, but if they are miserable or even neutral at work, like this is just a way, I mean, you're spending so much of your time there. How can you have full lives if almost 3 4th of your life is empty?