I am delighted to announce the publication of the second standalone book in my trilogy, ‘How Do ACEs Burnout?’ Volume II: The Furnace, the Second Wound and the Alibi: How Institutions Burn Out the People They Reward is now published. And it has just grown. The expanded edition adds a new chapter, The Eleventh ACE, and a whole new Part, The Love Arc, and I will not pretend to be calm about either of them. The Furnace, the Second Wound and the Alibi: How Institutions Burn Out the People They...

Stranger in a Strange Land, Being a Stranger to Your Self, and Belonging to a World That Rewards Estrangement so That You May no Longer Recognise Your Self as Missing The Architecture of Estrangement A person may spend forty years acquiring an extraordinary education, performing work of genuine value, earning the admiration of colleagues and finally arriving at the destination towards which the whole of their life appears to have been directed. The partnership is achieved. The consultant's...

Why do ACEs Burnout? The Fire, the Fan and the Fuel: Why the Brightest Burn First Burnout and the Prodigious Crashing Star Burnout is not that there is too much to do but rather that for that elite professional nothing is ever good enough: they will never willingly choose to stop. They have subconsciously adopted the elite profession as a replacement for the conditionally loving parent of their childhood, and eventually they appoint themselves to that role. Elite professional burnout is a...