The leadership balancing act - achieving success without burning out
summary
A practical playbook: stress shows up as jaw pain then eye twitch so track personal signals, use a quarterly wellness wheel, and build resilience with reframing, locus of control and growth/abundance mindsets. Work changes include focusing on three daily priorities, treating meetings as 45/20 minutes and reducing 1-hour meetings to 45 minutes, batching internal/external/strategic days, and empowering teams instead of delegating — scaled to an org of 80 developers. Cites surveys: 67% report burnout (7,500 employees) and offers templates, wikis and a peer-recognition product.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 5:39Stress
- 11:09Locus of control
- 12:26Framing
- 14:44Strengths
- 16:16Burnout
- 24:52Goal setting
- 34:49Structure
- 47:19Comparison
- 49:12Mindfulness
- 50:40Solving problems
- 51:33Achievement
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