Ashish Kothari argues that 72% of what drives burnout and health comes from team and organizational factors, not individual choices. Most workplace wellness programs focus on the wrong level. Leaders need to redesign work itself, not just offer meditation apps.
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72% of the demands and enablers behind holistic health are at the job team and organization level, not individual. So if all of your investments are on burnout, prevention, anxiety, depression on the right hand side giving individuals the resources or all of them are on the health side on the individual and you're missing work, you are leaving the majority of the opportunity and you're not exercising that responsibility. We have to fix work from one of immense human suffering to one of human flourishing. We are operating at 50% of the full potential of what's possible and it's not somebody else who's to blame. It's not somebody else who's responsible. As leaders and individuals we have the power to change our experience at work. We have to take responsibility and I'm going to give you a set of tips and tricks and the research in this field from so many individuals whose work you can harness whose to be an agent of change, be an agent of flourishing.