Your boss quit. Nobody gave you a raise. What you got was an AI tool and a "you've got this." If you're doing two jobs for one paycheck, here's what your brain is actually telling you

53% of managers are burned out right now. Their teams? 33%. That gap is not a coincidence. It is a neuroscience problem masquerading as a leadership failure. Managers carry two cognitive loads simultaneously — their own performance and the emotional weight of every person they lead. When that becomes chronic, cortisol stays elevated and the prefrontal cortex goes offline. Not slowly. Suddenly. This is not weakness. It is biology.