HR Digest

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you dread the thought of another workday and cannot drum up any enthusiasm for your job, meetings bore you to tears, and you have no interest in the proceedings or any inclination to contribute to the discussion, then it is time to reconnaissance and take a breather. Read on to spot if you are burned out. Take a vacation.

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How To Stress Energy Learning-by-Doing 117

HR Digest

APRIL 29, 2023

Some HR professionals may find that they have become bored or burned out in their current role and are looking for something different to reignite their passion for work. Another reason to explore other HR degree career paths is the desire for a change of pace or a new challenge.

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Career Management Human Resources Restructuring 98

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I recently asked readers to submit their burning leadership development questions. The employee always complies because he wants to help out. Thou shall not rat out another manager to your boss without first attempting to resolve the issue with the manager yourself. Thou shall not hoard information from your fellow managers.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

There’s the uncertainty of how a new employee will work out. In the meantime, they’re far more likely to be bored, unhappy, and resentful–things that affect performance and the entire team’s morale. There’s the expense of finding, onboarding, and training a replacement. Profits over people.

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Morale Bottom-up Uncertainty Commitment 167

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 6, 2019

You are where you are, and you could have been in multiple other places … things worked ( much from your effort, much from hard work, some from unfortunate events) and they could have turned out many many many other ways. When people get burned out, and bored stuckness or inertia hold strong.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Yes, I was bored out of my mind, and I remember that part vividly. I was focusing, I thought, on anything other than your monotonous voice boring us to tears. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” Our classroom was in a basement. What we were studying, I don’t know now and probably didn’t then. Zig Ziglar.

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Power Goal Bottom-up Transportation 111

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

NO ONE ever got good at anything without hundreds and hundreds of hours of repetitive, boring practice. However, there’s a huge, hungry audience that’s all too willing to shell out big bucks to take a shot at the latest and greatest fad. If it was easy, then we wouldn’t be having discussions about a lack of leaders. Job changes.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Business Simulation 241

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

A maverick band of rabbits, threatened by the spread of industrial construction near their warren (home), start out on a quest for a new warren and a better society. Do you ever come out?” The little boy takes us out and puts us in a pen on the grass.”. asks the leader, Hazel, puzzled by the caged rabbits’ docile nature.

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Wilde Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Open-book 150

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 22, 2020

We all know the stories of a once successful pastor or leader who flamed out too soon. When a leader ever feels he or she has all the answers – watch out! Leaders should seek out other leaders, take risks on trusting a few people, and be willing to ask for help before it’s too late. Pride comes before the fall.

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Leadership Long-term Bond Edmondson 60

Ron Edmondson

MAY 17, 2016

We all know the stories of the once successful pastor or leader who flamed out too soon. When a leader ever feels he or she has all the answers – watch out! If it’s not addressed, however, especially during extremely high stress periods, the leader will head towards crash and burn territory. Passiveness. Isolation.

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Leadership Long-term Bond Edmondson 56

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2013

We can burnout when we’re not feeling appreciated, when “it isn’t fair,” when work is meaningless, when we have values dissonance, and when we’re bored. Reach out to others – it’s not a weakness to ask for input, and help from people you trust. Identify accurately the root cause of your pain.

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Competitive Advantage Strategic Planning Content Tactics 84

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Are you bored at work? Your job might not always be fun, but if you’re bored all the time, make a jump to something new. Are you feeling burned out and tired? If you’re tired out all the time, it could be fatigue caused by work stress. If you’re tired out all the time, it could be fatigue caused by work stress.

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Career Stress Long-term Letter 14

Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are 7 pitfalls of leadership: Pride – When a leader ever feels he or she has all the answers…watch out! If it’s not addressed, however, especially during extremely high stress periods, the leader will head towards crash and burn territory. When things get routine for too long, the best leaders will get bored.

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Leadership Bond Team Environment 64

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 12, 2017

Great breakthroughs can be unexpected: As a tunnel-boring machine breaks through a wall, we learn construction workers have stumbled upon a great find. Bad leaders suck the life out of those they lead: Upon Ahmanet’s return to life, she was a deformed, decayed life-form. But bad leaders duck the life out of those they lead.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Construction Franchising 127

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 18, 2013

It doesn’t take long until a pastor burns out, potential leaders disappear and people are never developed and discipled. In the sameness of today, things become stale and eventually people become bored…and someday they disappear. The church experience that went bad. They begin to try to control every outcome.

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Delegation Learning-by-Doing Edmondson Resistance 82

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2018

In order to be able to make a business work, it is essential to hire the best professionals out there. However, opening windows or burning a scented candle has a great effect as well. With the help of some simple yet effective tips, business owners can improve the mood, drive, and performance of their workers. Hire Great Team Members.

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Environment Long-term Short-term Tips 52

The Practical Leader

MAY 2, 2012

But they are turned off by doing boring work. ” Promises of “breakthroughs” in health, fitness, and diet “secrets” generates billions of dollars in the search for shortcuts defying the basic laws of physics such as calories consumed minus calories burned. Millennials don’t want to be told what to do.

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Leadership Motivation Commitment Incentives 82

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 25, 2009

A few examples will illustrate: Children and toys: When parents give a child every toy she wants, she gets bored with them and they end up scattered all around the house. Conversely, a child who has assigned chores that result in the right to buy a new toy will value the toy and wear it out playing. It’s simple but true.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 7, 2018

It doesn’t take long until a pastor burns out, potential leaders disappear and people are never developed and discipled. In the sameness of today, things become stale and eventually people become bored, and someday, especially leaders or people who want to see progress, disappear. There were errors in leadership.

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Learning-by-Doing Delegation Resistance Leadership 38

Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Or saved a child from a burning building. And yet there are those days that just feel boring. If I were writing a self-help book, I might follow that realistic, slightly demotivating statement up with something like: “Break out of the ordinary. Get out there and make an eternal difference. I’ve never met a president.

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Follow-up Books Edmondson Definition 54

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 13, 2016

It doesn’t take long until a pastor burns out, potential leaders disappear and people are never developed and discipled. In the sameness of today, things become stale and eventually people become bored…and someday they disappear. The church experience that went bad. They begin to try to control every outcome.

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Learning-by-Doing Delegation Edmondson Resistance 30

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

I’m not talking about boring staff meetings. Fire Safety – a colleague once commented; “never burn a bridge, for you might have to cross the river again and walking over rushing water is easier than swimming through it.” As a leader do you have regular (formal and informal) one-on-one discussions with your team? If not, why not?

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Class Leadership Learning-by-Doing Productivity 110

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

So I asked career advice experts these 3 questions: What is your number #1 tip for being successful in a career today (employee or contract worker)? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? And I got 45 thoughtful, invaluable responses back which I will show you in just a few.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The first step in getting out of your own way is to develop what I call your inner Lookout. If your Lookout doesn’t make some noise, you’re at risk of turning into Jack: a leader with a great track record who doesn’t notice that he’s boiling inside and burning things down. Develop Your Lookout. What do I feel?

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Stress Management Reputation Bottom-up 14

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

To do this, I reached out to leaders I admire and respect. If you’re not hoisting, pulling, lifting, or pressing, you’re missing out. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet. When I get out of bed I drop to the floor and do yoga stretches for about 5 minutes.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The burning tickle of inhaling cold, clean air and snowflakes on a powder run. The only way to find out was to put my "real job" on hold. These days those sentiments go by the popular acronym FOMO, "Fear of Missing Out." If we can't figure out which option is better then it may be worth examining what those options mean to us.

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Learning-by-Doing Uncertainty Maturity Commitment 11

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 17, 2015

Chery Gegelman of Simply Understanding asks, “Have you ever… been bored from a lack of a challenge, tempted to rest on past successes, or gone in search of greener pastures just to grow?” Jeff Miller of the Faithful Pacesetters admits we can all get burned out at times. ” -Marina Abramovic.

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Follow-up Teamwork Ethics Open-book 180

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2012

Finally, I established reading a book as my default behavior for anytime I felt restless or bored, and tempted to get back online. In the process, I avoided burning down precious energy and willpower trying to resist the call of the Internet, or fracturing my attention by responding to it. Depth, not Breadth.

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Power Incentives Learning-by-Doing Open-book 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Steps to Take When You’re Starting to Feel Burned Out. At a recent conference we attended, a major social media app’s spokesman proudly asked the audience of technophiles, “Do you remember the last time you were bored with nothing to do? But it doesn’t play out that way. Monique Valcour.

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Stress ROI Short-term Article 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

One gentleman shared with me that after two decades in the IT industry he was bored and wondering what to do next. Figuring out a new identity can be one of scariest things you’ll ever do. We are in or out. ” Every job that we want done, with few exceptions, has both functional and emotional elements. You need both.

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Career Software Crisis Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Or at least I think that's what the professors expect, because when the two-week "internship" is over, they often say to me something like: "I always thought advertisers were master manipulators / slick bamboozlers / out-and-out liars, but what struck me most in my time here was how earnestly everyone was trying to understand and help consumers."

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Advertising Brand Marketing Film 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

HBR: Of the interviews, what jumped out at you? It’s hard to figure out exactly how we’re going to go about changing these, but I think the first step is identifying the problem. But I worry about this crowding out the need to also invest in mitigation to reduce the magnitude of climate change. That needs to change.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

He's figured out how to stay ahead of the transformations in technology, markets, and culture that have shaken his competitors in the financial-services world, and built a brand that stands for something special, hopeful, even meaningful in an industry that is profoundly broken. It's crashing and burning and nuking the paradigm!

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Banking Case Study Brand Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!” Steps to Take When You’re Starting to Feel Burned Out. Is the person becoming bored? Cat Yu for HBR. Now his team was seriously compromised. Why hadn’t he seen this coming? What was going on? He was angry about losing three team members.

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Stress System Execution Video 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Half of Millennials said "People my age see real life as a video game" and almost 6 out of 10 said "#winning is the slogan of my generation" (certainly #epic_fail seems to have become their anti-slogan!). Indeed, in the study, almost 7 out of 10 Millennials believe they "can successfully negotiate anything with authority figures."

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Brand Marketing Video Download 16

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. It grows sales.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

If you’re like me and watch far too much television, this summer’s pretzel roll ads felt like salty lasers incessantly burning their promotions into your hungry heart. ” The other attribute that helps the product out is its dual crunchy/soft texture. ” What the hell, indeed. What’s the endgame?

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Productivity Products Trends Innovation 8