"We get it. Being the go-to person feels good. It gives you a sense of purpose and contribution. But saying "yes" at all costs, even when you're overloaded, has a real impact on your professional performance, and on you personally. The unintended consequences of being everyone's go-to person can result in workload imbalances, unspoken resentment towards your team, and even quiet cracking, which are precursors to burnout."
"Quiet cracking is a subtle, internal experience of emotional and mental depletion that happens when you feel stretched too far for too long. And it makes sense, being everyone's go-to person without feeling appreciated or a sense of progress and advancement will likely leave you unhappy and unmotivated. It happens somewhere between burnout and quiet quitting, when you still show up and perform, but your engagement is silently eroding."
Dependability improves team performance, with Google's Project Aristotle identifying dependability as the second most important factor in high-performing teams. Excessive dependability can evolve into hyper-independence or people-pleasing, creating workload imbalances and unspoken resentment. Chronic overcommitment leads to quiet cracking: a subtle internal experience of emotional and mental depletion from being stretched too far for too long. Quiet cracking sits between burnout and quiet quitting, where people continue to show up but engagement silently erodes. High performers experiencing resentfulness, fatigue, irritability, or stagnation should reassess boundaries, honor their feelings, and reduce unsustainable 'go-to' expectations.
Read at Fast Company
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