Katrina Read: Busy Work, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Your organisation is busy. Everyone is exhausted. The dashboards are green. So why does it still feel like nothing is getting better?

Modern organisations have become exceptionally good at activity. We hold meetings to prepare for workshops, build dashboards to measure the work, create governance to govern the governance and launch transformation programs that sometimes become remarkably good at transforming PowerPoint.

Then AI arrived and gave us the ability to produce even more of it, faster.

Busy Work explores why smart people inside successful organisations get trapped in systems that reward motion instead of progress - and what we can do about it.

Drawing on more than two decades working at the intersection of business, technology and transformation, Katrina takes readers inside the familiar absurdities of corporate life: the Workshop Industrial Complex, dashboards that measure everything except improvement, decisions disguised as alignment exercises, and transformation theatre that somehow survives every new strategy and technology platform. Along the way, she explores how AI risks becoming the most powerful busy-work generator we've ever invented.

But this isn't just a catalogue of corporate nonsense. It is a practical guide to getting better.

Busy Workchallenges leaders and practitioners to look beyond the activity, confront the decisions they've been avoiding and rethink how work actually gets done. From choosing the problems worth solving and measuring outcomes that matter, to changing the conditions that shape behaviour and using AI to eliminate unnecessary work, it offers a refreshingly practical perspective on what meaningful transformation requires.

Written with humour, a healthy dose of sarcasm and the perspective of someone who's spent more than twenty years in the thick of it, Busy Work is for anyone who has ever left a meeting wondering why they were there - or watched their workplace become busier without becoming better.

The goal was never to become busier. It was to get better.