COVER STORY COLUMN NAME by Nena Groskind B A T T L I N G B UR N O UT Association Managers, Management Companies Work to Combat It If you think about association management - and that's what we're going to do for the next 3,000 words or so - it's not hard to understand why burnout and high turnover are perennial problems. A manager's hours are long, the compensation less than stellar, and the stress levels often off the chart. The surprising thing is not that so many managers suffer from burnout, but that so many of them manage to avoid that fate. 28 Condo Media * April 2014