Avoiding the ‘Silent Epidemic’: Burnout is High Among Entrepreneurs and Executives

William Shakespeare may have been the first one to use the term “burned out” in a psychological sense when he described a “burn’d out” love in his poem “The Passionate Pilgrim.” But it wasn’t until 1974 when psychologist Herbert Freudenberger borrowed a term from the drug culture of the 1960s referring to someone who has […]