Nobody talks about how lonely it is to be in the middle. Too senior to complain. Too junior to change the system. Squeezed from above by leadership expectations. Squeezed from below by your team’s needs. And somehow – you’re the one absorbing all of it. If that sounds familiar, this article is for you. The…
Most people who burn out never saw it coming. Not because they weren’t self-aware. Not because they weren’t intelligent or experienced enough to recognise stress. Because burnout in high-performers doesn’t look like burnout. It looks like dedication. It looks like high standards. It looks like being the person everyone can count on. And by the…
And why you probably don’t recognise yourself in the last one Most people think burnout looks like collapse. A dramatic breakdown. A moment where everything stops. That’s not how it usually happens. In most leaders and high-achievers I work with, burnout arrived quietly – over months, sometimes years – while they were still delivering, still leading, still looking absolutely fine from the outside. It happened…