Episode #30
EP30: Red Flags for Burned Out Leaders
Every leadership conversation about burnout assumes it's happening to the team. The direct reports. The frontline staff. Almost nobody talks about the fact that leaders experience burnout too and often, nobody is watching for it in them. In this episode of Management in Minutes, Charles Evans names what burnout actually looks like at the leadership level, not the general version everyone talks about, but three specific, often-invisible signs: decision fatigue that shows up as quiet abdication rather than visible struggle, declining presence both physical and emotional, and a growing loss of direction where planning stops and the role becomes a hamster wheel. Charles also draws a critical distinction between fatigue, temporary and situational and burnout, the chronic wear of compounding circumstances where the person either never built proper supports or has stayed past their season. Leaders are people too. They need someone looking out for their wellbeing just as much as the people they lead. #LeadOnPurpose
