70% of C-suite executives are considering leaving their roles to protect their well-being. Not because they're weak. Because their organizations have exceeded the human capacity to absorb change.

This episode explores transformation fatigue, the invisible crisis killing your best initiatives before they start. I break down the three hidden cognitive loads draining your workforce, why traditional change management fails in continuous change environments, and five recovery strategies that restore your organization's capacity for transformation.

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Key Takeaways

• Transformation fatigue isn't burnout. It's a mismatch between how our brains work and what modern leadership demands.
• Three cognitive loads multiply together: information switching, emotional labor, and decision complexity. By mid-afternoon, your initiatives aren't competing with resistance. They're confronting depletion.
• Traditional change models assume time for "refreezing." Continuous change creates "perpetual thaw" where nothing feels solid.
• Five symptoms signal fatigue: passive compliance, cynicism disguised as experience, quality decline, talent flight, and degraded leadership decisions.
• You can't motivate people out of neurological depletion. Recovery must be built into strategy, not hoped for.