Burnout: The Silent Team-Killer

In this episode, we take conventional wisdom, gently place it in a box… and then punt that box off a cliff. Wayne Robertson dives into everyone’s favorite workplace horror movie: Burnout—aka “The Silent Productivity Assassin,” “The Morale Vampire,” and “The Reason Janet Snapped at a Printer.”

Burnout isn’t just “being tired.” No — burnout is what happens when your team hits the emotional equivalent of the spinning wheel of death on your computer. It’s when your star employee goes from “I love this job!” to “If someone schedules one more meeting, I’m faking my own death.”

Burnout isn’t a buzzword. It’s a leadership test: Fail the test, and your team transforms into a herd of exhausted zombies desperately trying to remember why they ever believed “We’re like family here.” Pass the test, and you’ll have a team t ...