Ashish Kothari argues that meditation apps and wellness programs miss the point. Real burnout prevention requires leaders to cut excessive meetings, manage workload, and develop better management skills. Leadership controls almost 96% of how people show up at work.
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2024-10-04
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The models and the programs we run. We are running one program right now with one of the top hyperscalers, one of the top FAANGs, if you will, the four big tech companies. And they had tons of programs around the languishing, those who were struggling, employee assistance programs, et cetera. But they didn't have one, which was on promoting flourishing, which was on proactively helping people address elements in the job level and at the team level. Really those leadership skills that really control almost 96% of how people show up and how they work. Because that is job and team level. And that's what we are running because it's so missing. There's so much at the end of if you burn out, if you are struggling, I'm going to give you help and then everything else is individual. I'm going to give you calm, I'm going to give you headspace, I'm going to give you nutrition. But there's such a big gap in terms of actually programs that proactively shape the work, change the work, to support everybody else, to flourish, to proactively address work demands, workloads. Just the madness of meetings. I mean, it's crazy. I look at that data all the time, like back to back meetings. We know from research how bad that is for our brains, how less effective we are, and yet here we go.
