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hard organizational psychology data.
Is your organization running on clear decision architecture, or are you masking
structural friction with personal exhaustion?
Decisions are slowing down due to meeting congestion and ambiguous veto authority. Top performers are beginning to feel cognitive depletion.
Deploy the WAVE audit and meeting bankruptcy protocol to reclaim 6+ hours weekly.
The jokes are the hook. But there’s a real diagnosis underneath every one of them. In a national study, 73% of professionals showed clinically meaningful burnout risk — and the strongest predictor wasn’t hours. It was whether the system around them worked.
This book gives leaders one question to carry into every room and three practices to fix what’s broken before it becomes burnout.
WORK MIGHT NOT BE WORKING
IF....
You've been "noodling on the strategy" so long you could open a restaurant with the noodles.
Noodling is just procrastinating in a turtleneck. It sounds thoughtful. It is not thoughtful. We are not fooled.
WORK MIGHT NOT BE WORKING
IF....
Every hard conversation gets "taken offline" — and offline has become the world's most productive graveyard.
Taking it offline means it's dead. You're just too polite to say it out loud. In the meeting. Where everyone already knows.
WORK MIGHT NOT BE WORKING
IF....
You've spent more time getting your "ducks in a row" than the ducks have spent doing anything useful.
The ducks are in the row. The ducks have ALWAYS been in the row. At what point do the ducks actually do something?!
WORK MIGHT NOT BE WORKING
IF....
You've been "kept in the loop" for six months and still can't find the entrance to the loop.
The loop is not a place. It's a holding area. You're not informed. You're parked.
WORK MIGHT NOT BE WORKING
IF....
The answer to every single problem is "blue sky thinking" — and it's been overcast since Q1.
Blue sky thinking is what you call it when you've got nothing. And you know it. And we all know it. And yet here we are.
WORK MIGHT NOT BE WORKING
IF....
"Boiling the ocean" is an actual sentence that left an actual human mouth in your last meeting.
Sir, you can't boil a cup of coffee on time. The ocean is NOT on the agenda.
WORK MIGHT NOT BE WORKING
IF...
Your entire Q3 strategy is "low-hanging fruit" — and nobody has reached for it since Q1.
At some point it's just... fruit. On the ground. Attracting insects.
Boardrooms, corner offices, conference rooms — I’ve watched brilliant people work incredibly hard while
nothing moved. The memes are what I see. The book is what it means.
The jokes are how I explain it to people who are too tired to read a white paper. Which, if you picked any of
those signals above, is probably you right now.
The memes are the hook. The book is the answer. All of it says the same thing: work should work.
Gain practical tools and guided strategies designed to help you better understand your patterns, strengthen self-awareness and turn insight into meaningful action.
This course combines research-backed concepts with practical exercises you can apply to real-world challenges, helping you make more intentional decisions, navigate change and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Take the 3-minute Firm Burnout Inventory and get a personal audio breakdown of what your score means — from me, not a generic report.
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