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What is burnout?
The follow-up to our multi-award winning, best selling book The Culture of Burnout: Why Your Exhaustion Is Not Your Fault (2023).
Based on the research from our first book, Leading Through The Culture of Burnout, offers the same important information, in a shorter, more accessible format. The book includes even more practical tips based on our years of research and expertise, updated statistics and arguments, and leadership-focused reflection questions.
If you know your folks are suffering from burnout and you’re not sure what to do, this book is the place to start.
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What is the book about?
what burnout is and what it does:
Understanding what burnout is, what it does to our minds and bodies is the first step to figuring out how to mitigate it.
the american culture of burnout:
Burnout exists on a global scale, but there are very specific cultural reasons why America is the most burned out country in the world.
how to mitigate and prevent burnout:
Offering practical solutions to individual and cultural burnout, we provide our three-pronged approach and unique mitigation model.
how to lead folks through all of this:
Leading folks through our culture of burnout is particularly challenging. This book is intended to help those folks figure best practices as leaders.
Who is this book for?
Leaders
Leaders face a lot of pressure to balance taking care of their folks with taking care of business. We're here to help you figure out how to manage that balance successfully.
Managers
Whether you are in charge of 5 or 500 people, this book is geared to help you understand yourself and your folks in a way that can help mitigate and prevent burnout.
Employees
You don't have to be in a leadership position to get a lot out of this book. Our insights and action steps are for anyone wanting to end burnout culture in their organization.
Meet the Authors
Dr. Kristen Donnelly and Dr. Erin Hinson are The Good Doctors of Abbey Research and the co-founders of Ontario Street Publishing. They are researchers and educators with social science PhDs. They are also best friends and met while doing their PhDs in Northern Ireland almost 15 years ago.
Kristen has always been a writer, starting with Harry Potter fan fiction in the late 1990s. Erin has also been writing since the late 1990s, if her pre-teen and teenage journals count. Kristen often jokes that The Good Doctors have so many degrees because they happen to be good at what people give degrees for - reading, researching, and writing.
When it comes down to it, they both love writing because they love telling stories. People learn (and change) not through shame or statistics, but through storytelling. Erin and Kristen believe telling stories is one of the most effective ways to practice empathy.