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Take Care of Yourself, Too
We’ve spent almost the entirety of the book with strategies and tactics for supporting our people. But the last time I checked, I was still a human being. And so are you.
Leaders tend to pull the motivation and fuel from leading their teams, but they can also get depleted from that passion. We’ve discussed passion-driven burnout already, but we haven’t analyzed what kind of interventions are required to defend against it. If we can maintain harmonious passion in our work, that is the ideal. The data reinforced how meaning and purpose in work can be a prophylaxis to burnout.
In addition to empathy, resilience is a valuable psychological fitness skill to develop. Resilient leaders have high emotional flexibility and ...
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