Busy Is Broken: Scaling your company shouldn’t cost your health, your family, or your sanity. Most of us wear busy like a badge and call it commitment. A few of us avoid growing on purpose to protect some kind of life, and feel guilty about that too.
Busy is not a time management problem. It is an identity problem.
We will explore:
-Four ways leaders break the very systems they’re trying to scale, and how to spot which one is theirs.
- A shared vocabulary for what’s broken, so the rest of the chapter can keep talking about it after you leave.
- A diagnostic they run on their own calendar that week. Not a thirty-day program. Just the next thing to do.
About the Speaker:
Bill Gallagher is the author of *Busy Is Broken*, host of the Scaling Up Podcast (700+ episodes), and a coach to CEOs and entrepreneurs who want to scale without losing their minds. Across 40+ years as an entrepreneur and executive, he led four companies as CEO and helped grow two others from startup to over $550 million. Today he works with leaders and teams in 39 cities across 18 countries.
A former DJ and radio executive, Bill still talks for a living, just with better material. When he's not coaching, he's probably surfing, sailing, skiing, flying, or diving, basically anything that moves. He and his wife Lori have lived in the Oakland Hills for 30 years and raised two kids: a son who's a leading AI scientist and a daughter who's a creative director in music and entertainment. He's also a proud grandpa.
