Your People Are Not All Right

By Melissa Swift, MIT Sloan Management Review (from January 7, 2026)

“People are not OK,” professor and author Brené Brown told an audience in October. She’s right.

The mood she points to — “emotionally dysregulated, distrustful, and disconnected” — is visible everywhere you look. We’re seeing public CEO meltdowns, as well as pervasive well-being challenges on a worldwide workforce scale. In one stunning study, fully 73% of employees surveyed said that mental health struggles had had a negative impact on their job performance — a 42% increase from the year before.

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