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Burnout Isn’t Your Fault — But It Is Your Problem — David Shar
Burnout doesn’t come from being weak. And it doesn’t come from caring too much.
It comes from broken systems that reward overextension, punish honesty, and slowly disconnect people from the work they signed up to do.
In this episode of Dispatched & Dysfunctional, I sit down with David Shar — founder of Illuminate PMC and an Industrial–Organizational psychologist — to talk about what burnout actually is, why it spreads through teams like a virus, and why the best people usually burn out first.
We get into:
Why burnout isn’t about workload — it’s about barriers, leadership, and culture
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