Category: Burnout

“With respect to the Army, I believe burnout to be the gravest threat we face to resiliency, readiness, and retention.” All who study the phenomenon of burnout will tell you: prevention is best.  It is best not to wait until you are experiencing deep stages of burnout to begin to make some changes to address …

Read more “Burnout Part II, Designing the Life You Would Prefer: Burnout Mitigation and Recovery”

Perhaps the greatest threat to the workforce in the 21st Century is a newly designated phenomenon called occupational burnout. The phenomenon is not new, and it has been studied from a variety of disciplinary angles before. My mother used to ominously call its more serious stages, “a nervous breakdown.” What is new is that the …

Read more “The Real Plague: Burnout (Part I in the Burnout Blogs)”