Like people, entire organizations can experience burn out. Sometimes, the burn out is a result of systemic problems: busy time of year, new contracts, world events, etc. Unfortunately, many times organizational burn out is caused by a leader or a leadership team. This can happen when a leader moves from an operational or more urgent line of business to one that is strategic or enabling.
Are any of the following signs resident in your workspace?:
Keep adding more work without taking anything off the plate
Chasing after the hottest thing (shiny object syndrome)
Lack of understanding of priorities
Focus on everything at the cost of the work or product with the highest revenue/impact
What can you as a leader do to help?
Set priorities
Throw things off the plate- Stop doing projects that aren't having impact
Refocus
Build in down time and communicate that it's ok to have it (model it)
Stop reorganizing
For more information, see "The Acceleration Trap" by Heike Bruch and Jochen Menges.
http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-acceleration-trap/ar/1
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