Purpose: Where To Start

Organizations can articulate purpose on many levels, from the value of individual tasks and roles, to the significance of entire departments, to the overarching purpose of the organization as a whole. When we understand the purpose of something, we can choose to engage with it more deeply and freely or disengage with clarity about why we don’t want to participate.

One way to understand purpose is to think about it as the why behind our actions. Many of us who have had young children in our li...