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Learning from Burnout: Developing sustainable leaders and avoiding career derailment
 
 

Learning from Burnout: Developing sustainable leaders and avoiding career derailment [Kindle Edition]

David Megginson , Tim Casserley
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"A fascinating insight into the whole area of burnout, in particular the insight into an individual's predisposition. The tendency has always been to blame the working environment or the individual concerned, assuming that they actually cannot 'hack' the job, so this book offers a refreshing dimension. The title encapsulates in the word 'learning' the key message of the book that burnout should not be seen as negative/taboo but an opportunity for both the organization and the individual to 'harness the powerful learning of the experience'.
Kate Williams, Co-Director, The Learning Approach

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Burnout is a taboo subject. Admitting you are burning out in your job is tantamount to career suicide for some employees; for their organizations it is like raising a white flag in the war for talent. But suppose that preventing burnout is the worst thing you can do. Suppose for some people, particularly high fliers, it represents a call to deep and urgent learning about themselves and how they relate to the world. Suppose that we need instead to learn to manage burnout and harness the powerful learning potential of the experience, and in so doing build careers aligned with individual meaning and purpose, sustainable in the long term. What would organizations and their people need to do to achieve this?

This book:
* Explains what burnout is, how it is becoming the 21st-century business equivalent of the 'black death', and how it can derail your career
* Highlights the financial, reputational and personal costs to organizations and people
* Details how burnout can deliver a killer punch to talent management and the development of the leaders of tomorrow, and risk the retention, growth and productivity of high fliers
* Explores why some of us develop a strong sense of our own, personal identity at work, while others find it more difficult
* Presents a coaching process to manage burnout and harness its learning potential
* Provides a framework for individuals to build careers aligned with individual meaning and purpose.

* Explains what burnout is, how it is becoming the 21st-century business equivalent of the 'black death', and how it can derail your career
* Highlights the financial, reputational and personal costs to organizations and people
* Presents a coaching process to manage burnout and harness its learning potential

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1492 KB
  • Print Length: 256 pages
  • Publisher: A Butterworth-Heinemann Title (11 Nov 2008)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003VIWRU4
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #256,790 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By S. Blow
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Burnout is wasteful and destructive. This superb book helps readers to understand the complex relationship between organisational culture and individual behaviour that may result in the brightest and best failing to fulfil their potential. What is new and unexpected about this book is that (possibly for the first time) light is shed on an individual's propensity to become 'hooked' into their own burnout. I would recommend that this book be given to everyone selected for a 'high potential' programme...and their managers. Leaders need to be able to recognise the symptoms of burnout in others, and to be able to receive support and help from others when they start to develop the symptoms themselves. An excellent book; gentle, thoughtful and truly helpful.
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