Enforced Summertime: One Person's Hardworking Joy Can be Another's Excessive Stress

A former community college president muses on"enforced summertime" and how it is in fact possible to overwork your administrative staff:

Within the aggressive achievement environment, leaders can push folks beyond their limit. While a leader may thrive on achievement, he or she must ask the question, “At what cost to this organization and these valued people?” When the leader and the college become driven rather than planful and purposeful in selecting appropriate priorities and actions at the college, the stress can overwhelm the college. Leadership is required sometimes to say, stop! This is enough work for one year.