High listeners, it's Reed. You're about to hear a special episode of Master's Scale called

Five Ways to Burn Out Proof Your Organization.

If you're a teen leader, the issue of burnout is probably already on your mind. You've been

navigating stressors on multiple fronts from the global pandemic to supply chain disruptions,

climate change, and the rollback of basic human rights around the world. I'm sure you

have your own mental list of what's keeping you up at night. And if burnout isn't on your

mind, it should be because burnout leads to employee attrition and churn within an organization

and a company that is bleeding talent can't scale. Even before employees leave a company,

burnout can have devastating effects on culture and mental health. Teams experiencing burnout

aren't just exhausted, they're disengaged. They start to doubt themselves and their abilities,

or they fall prey to cynicism, a feeling that can spread to the entire organization.

Some causes a burnout are well outside any one manager's control, like the list of challenges

you heard a moment ago. Others are part of a necessary life cycle of growing a business,

because the fundamentals of scale haven't changed no matter how circumstances might.

There is no blood scaling without at least some massive work weeks and project sprints

to get the next window of opportunity. You can't shield your team from all stress, but

you can find effective and human ways of supporting your employees through it. So we're going

to hear from some of the best conversations we've had recently with founders and business

leaders. Some spoke to me and some spoke to Bob Safian on Master's of Scale, Rapid Response.

Anyway, these are critical insights you won't want to miss about stopping burnout in your

organization before it takes hold.

This is Master's of Scale.

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