If you want to prevent burnout, as a manager, you must fight overcommitment syndrome within your ranks.

This is the toxic overcommitment cycle: When an organization is understaffed, the extra work inevitably must fall to someone. Everything is urgent and important. People overextend themselves, committing to too many projects with too short lead times, and this may even work for a little while. But no one—even the most committed, hardest-working individuals—can sustain that pace........

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