KINTSUGI: The Burnout Playbook

You're performing. The numbers are fine. And yet something that used to feel like fuel now feels like friction.If you're a leader, executive, or high performer who has tried mindfulness apps, coaching, four-day workweeks — and the exhaustion keeps coming back — this book explains why. And offers a structural alternative.KINTSUGI is not another burnout self-help book. It is a field manual written by a global business executive (IBM Korea, Samsung Group, 60+ countries, 34 years) who burned out three times — and discovered that the recovery tools the West gave him treated symptoms, not causes.What you'll find inside:• Why 82% of employees are at risk of burnout — and why $20B in solutions haven't fixed it• The structural difference between the Western "performance OS" and the Asian "identity OS"• Karma Yoga, Kintsugi, Jeong, Shokunin, Yang-Sheng — not as philosophy, but as daily practice• A 12-question diagnostic to identify YOUR specific burnout type (A, B, or C)• The Persona Portfolio: build an identity that survives your next career crisis• The Yang-Sheng physical reset that addresses the body dimension most books ignoreBased on: NYU Stern MBA Stanford Executive Program 3 burnouts across 3 decades McKinsey problem-solving framework applied to personal recovery"The West handed us a manual. Asia gave us an operating system."For executives, directors, founders, and high performers who are tired of Band-Aid solutions. Read more