Published Online:September 2025
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Effective Executive
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJEE020925
DOI:10.71329/EffectiveExecutive/2025.28.3.13-41
Author Name:Colin Coulson-Thomas
Availability:YES
Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:13-41
Corporate Board Directors and employees face increasing pressures and multiple environmental, geopolitical, technological, governance and regulatory challenges as interdependent issues, global risks and existential threats loom. As a result, their workloads and expectations of them increase, raising questions about their resilience and ability to cope, and whether there is a limit to how much they can handle and what others should expect from them. Infrastructures, institutions and arrangements are often fragile. Many people, whether board members or employees, are also overloaded and running out of bandwidth. They are anxious, insecure, stressed and show symptoms of unwellness. In the face of hitherto inadequate collective efforts to address challenges such as climate change their prospects are uncertain and problematic. They have a common interest in survival and might benefit from working together and greater corporate and other wellness and mutual support.
People individually and collectively, whether within families, organizations, communities or societies, face combinations of common