When Success Stops Working: Bill Reilly's Map for Friction Before Burnout

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:11:25 -0400

You know the feeling. The work that used to move in a week now needs several rounds of review. An email that once landed cleanly comes back with questions you did not have to answer before. You use the same judgment, the same habits, and the same effort, but the results keep getting weaker.

That was the ground Bill Reilly covered at AgileRTP’s September 1, 2026 event, “When Success Stops Working: Burnout or Friction?”, organized by Catherine Lewis and Arjay Hinek. Reilly, an executive coach, gave that experience a name: friction. His Reinvention Cycle is an attempt to describe what happens when the person has not necessarily changed, but the environment around them has.

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