If You're Curious About These Questions...
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- Have you ever wondered why following all the standard "lean in" advice often leads to chronic burnout instead of the success you were promised?
- Did you know that the exhaustion you’re feeling might not be a lack of personal resilience, but a direct result of invisible systemic structures built into your workplace?
- What if you could shift from individual survival to building collective power that actually changes the rules of the game for women leaders?
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Key Takeaways from This Isn't Working
- Understand why workplace burnout is the result of a systematically rigged, patriarchal game rather than your personal inadequacy.
- Discover how navigating contradictory expectations and double standards impacts your physical health, and learn to stop internalizing these systemic flaws.
- Learn to combat professional gaslighting by establishing firm boundaries, meticulously documenting your work, and refusing to over-explain yourself.
- Build psychological safety nets by connecting with trusted colleagues who can validate your reality and protect your mental health from toxic dynamics.
- Master the art of playing offense by creating your own visibility systems and redefining success metrics to ensure your unseen labor gets recognized.
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This Isn't Working — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Evaluating the field
Chapter 3: Defense first
Chapter 4: Advancing in the field
Chapter 5: Building your team
Chapter 6: Transforming the game
This Isn't Working Summary & Overview
This Isn’t Working (2025) uncovers how patriarchal workplace structures create impossible double standards for women leaders, causing chronic stress and burnout that no amount of individual resilience can overcome. It offers a playbook for recognizing these systemic patterns, developing protective strategies, building collective power, and ultimately reshaping organizations to value human sustainability alongside business success.
Who Should Listen to This Isn't Working?
- Reformed “lean-iners” who followed all the advice but hit invisible walls anyway
- Exhausted optimists who still believe in change but need sustainable ways to create it
- Anyone who genuinely wants to understand and address workplace inequality
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