The "Silent Middle"

When leaders think about burnout, they often imagine visible distress, absence, emotional overwhelm or resignation.

However, burnout does not always look like struggle. Often, it looks like competence.

It looks like the person who always delivers. The one who volunteers to pick up the slack. The one answering work emails while watching their son's nativity play, so they do not let anybody down. The one who says, "It's fine; I'll sort it." The one who absorbs tension in the room so that others do not.

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