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Systemic Friction:

Track Burnout Like a Business Metric

WHEN TO USE

Use when you sense depletion in others, or in yourself, but haven’t named the systemic issue.

WHAT TO DO

Rate your team weekly on exhaustion, cynicism, and efficacy (1-10 each). Each day for two weeks, note one observation about strain, not analysis, just data. At the end, ask: where do signals cluster? Which is the system producing, workload, lack of control, insufficient recognition, community breakdown? Name one structural change. Burnout is information about your system’s design, not a personal failure to manage.