Laurie McGinley

Running Into the Petri Dish of Burnout

A How Not-To Guide

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Produktbeschreibung

Running Into the Petri Dish of Burnout: A How Not-To Guide by Laurie McGinley is a guide for leaders in climate and other values-based sectors to avoid burnout by understanding its causes and how it manifests differently in individuals. The book emphasizes that those driven by love and a desire to do good are susceptible to a unique type of burnout. It argues that qualities that enable people to lead the world into a brighter future can also lead them into burnout. The book is for leaders, defined as C-suite employees, founders, directors, and those in supporting roles within climate-oriented initiatives. It introduces four personality types susceptible to burnout: Perfectionists, Heroes, researchers, and Motivators. These types are identified by what slows them down: Perfectionists feel overwhelmed by tasks, Heroes resist scaling down, Researchers feel misunderstood, and Motivators are impatient. These types overlap with Enneagram personality types. The book uses three approaches to discuss burnout: * Sharing the author's experiences that lead to burnout. * Illustrating how people the author worked with were susceptible to burnout because of their strengths. * Offering lessons, recommendations, and exercises to help avoid or escape burnout. The book introduces the concept of 'running balls out,' which is operating as fast as possible within perceived limits of success, leading to burnout. It also introduces the opposite of burnout: transformation. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding one's "Awesome," the skill used to repair and transform the world, as a diagnostic tool and vulnerability to burnout. It stresses that leadership by heart is the only sustainable form of leadership and requires humility, trust, and vulnerability. The book also offers practical advice and exercises, like Balloon Breath, Body Alarm, and Lover Words, to promote mindfulness and help individuals recognize and respond to their body's signals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Via Lucent
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9798992732900
• Artikelnr.: 73744080

Autorenporträt

Laurie McGinley is super f'n magic. She is a transformation guide who brings world changers through the barriers that stand in the way of living their dreams. That wasn't always true. As a wildly ambitious person who burned out twice by the age of 38, she was known to break her own foot pursuing a personal record in distance running, have a stress induced stroke at work at 31 at a dream job, burn out again at 38 at an even more dreamy dream job, and generally run her body like it was a machine until it broke. She learned over, and over, and over again where her perceived limits were then intentionally smashed through them. This got her great success and awards from an early age. Her letter jacked in high school literally sagged 12" on the side that had all the medals attached to it. She walked around with a decisive clank. When her peers were starting to party and rebel as teenagers, McGinley launched into what would become a life-long obsession with how humans make rapid and massive transformations. She is a polymath who obsessively ingested methods, models, techniques, self help books, courses, and information from coaches. She has absolutely unlocked the code on what works and what does not. McGinley wrote her first book, "Running Into the Petri Dish of Burnout: A How Not-to Guide," as a gift to the world changers who trust her to guide them to transformation. The four personalities defined in the work represent four distinct approaches to ambition and accomplishment. She identifies as a Motivator (or an enneagram Eight).McGinley has a deep meditation practice, does woodturning as a meditation, and although she doesn't play in a band if she ever does it will definitely be called Maximum Dumbassery. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.