We hope this blog creates some interest in our book, Fake Work, but we are more interested in the concept of fake work and how it negatively affects lives and organizations. Fake Work:

• Creates an insidious and dangerous wedge that separates us from doing work that is productive and effective—the work itself.
• Keeps us from being appreciated, respected, and promotable—even when it isn’t our fault.
• Hurts our sense of worth, affects our happiness, and interrupts the joy in our personal lives.
• Promotes distrust and false competition, which disrupts teams.

Please Get Involved and Participate
We hope you will contribute to this blog. We will be posting “Your Fake Work Stories” that can be both about Fake Work or overcoming Fake Work in any work environment you are involved in. Look at the categories for our postings and you will see that, over time, we will provide interesting stories, stories from the news, funny stories, lists and tests that will help promote the ideas of fake work and real work. But, mostly, we hope you will grow more aware of fake work and be able to address the problems that are affecting you, your job, and the organizations that you work for and are involved with.

Make Fake Work a part of your Vocabulary
Finally, we hope “Fake Work” becomes a catchword for pinpointing and avoiding work that is wasteful and ridiculous. As one client told us, “We end meetings, emails, and discussions of all kinds by asking ‘so what of this will cause or contribute to fake work’.” Ultimately, that is the attitude that will build a new a more constructive dialogue and culture for real work.

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