Why many high performers stop recognising themselves before they recognise burnout Most people think burnout begins with exhaustion. They imagine someone who can no longer get out of bed, someone visibly overwhelmed, or someone whose performance has fallen apart....
Most leaders assume that if they are still functioning, they must still be operating at their best. They continue attending meetings, making decisions, managing people, and delivering results, so from the outside very little appears wrong. In fact, many...
When people talk about burnout recovery, the advice often sounds the same. Take a break. Go on holiday. Step back from the business. And while rest absolutely has a role to play, the reality for most leaders is that disappearing for six months simply isn’t an...
There is a version of burnout that most leaders are familiar with, the tiredness that a good night’s sleep doesn’t fix, the motivation that ebbs and flows, the low-grade sense that you’re running on less than you used to. Uncomfortable, yes. But...
There’s a feeling that arrives sometime around 4pm on a Sunday afternoon. You can’t always name it straight away. The weekend isn’t over. Nothing has gone wrong. And yet something shifts; a low hum of unease, a tightening in the chest, a mind that...
Alan had always been the sort of man people admired from a distance. At school, he was “driven.” At university, “focused.” By his thirties, “relentless.” These were compliments, apparently. No one ever asked what they cost him. Or perhaps they assumed the cost was the...
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