Leaders can't afford to mistake a team's endurance for resilience. Endurance is about performing despite sustained pressure. Resilience is about designing systems to absorb pressure so that no single person is taking on too much. Such systems dedicate time for recovery, distribute pressure across teams, and reward prevention over crisis response. Leaders can help their organizations make the shift to real resilience by modeling boundaries, celebrating foresight, sharing control, and protecting slack. Resilience has become one of the most overused words in management. Leaders praise teams for 'pushing through' and 'bouncing back,' as if the ability to absorb endless strain were proof of strength. But endurance and resilience are not the same. Endurance is about surviving pressure. Resilience is about designing systems so people don't break under it. Many organizations don't build resilience; they simply expect employees to endure more. The result is a quiet crisis of exhaustion...
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