Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less (4th Edition)

by Sam Carpenter

Overview

A simple mindset tweak will change your life.

It started with a midnight insight. After a fifteen-year nightmare of coping with his struggling business, Sam Carpenter discovered and then developed a simple methodology that knocked his routine 80-hour workweek down to zero, while multiplying his net income by a factor of 100. Now, in 2021, here’s his bestselling business book, revised yet again, showing how you too can instantly break free to build the business and life of your dreams.

In this fourth edition of Work the System, Carpenter reveals the profound insight and exact uncomplicated, mechanical steps he took to turn his business—and his life—around. Once you “get” this new vision, success and serenity will come quickly. You will learn to:

· Make a simple perception adjustment that will change your life forever.

· See your world as a logical collection of linear systems that you can control.

· Manage the systems that produce results in your business and your life.

· Stop fire killing and become a fire-control specialist.

· Maximize profit, create client loyalty, and develop enthusiastic employees.

· Identify insidious “errors of omission.”

· Maximize your biological and mechanical “prime time” so that you are working at optimum efficiency.

· Design the life you want—and then, in the real world, create it!

You can keep doing what you’ve always done and continue getting unsatisfactory results. Or you can find the peace and freedom you’ve always wanted by transforming your businesses or corporate department into a finely tuned machine that runs smoothly and profitably on autopilot.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626347694
Publisher:	Greenleaf Book Group Press
Publication date:	02/09/2021
Pages:	293
Sales rank:	1,099,108
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Preface to the Fourth Edition: Dysfunction Is Gold xiii

Preface to the First Edition: It's Just Mechanics xxvii

Introduction: The Simplest Solution 1

Part 1 The Systems Mindset 15

1 Control Is a Good Thing 17

2 Events Did Not Unfold as Anticipated 28

3 The Attack of the Moles 34

4 Gun-to-the-Head Enlightenment 42

5 Building the Machine 65

6 Systems Revealed, Systems Managed 75

7 Getting It: A Room Full of Boxes 88

Part 2 Make It So 95

8 Swallowing the Horse Pill 96

9 We Are Project Engineers 110

10 Your Strategic Objective and General Operating Principles 122

11 Your Working Procedures 129

Part 3 So Say We All 149

12 Good Enough 150

13Errors of Omission 157

14 Quiet Courage 163

15 Point-of-Sale Thinking 168

16 Extraordinary Systems Operated by Great People 177

17 Consistency and Cold Coffee 185

18 Hyper-Communications: Grease for the Wheels 194

19 Prime Time 202

20 The Traffic Circles of Pakistan 217

21 System-Improvement as a Way of Life 224

Epilogue: Your Business: Is This the End or Just the Start? 229

Acknowledgments 233

Appendix A Centratel's Strategic Objective 236

Appendix B Centratel's Thirty Principles 238

Appendix C Sample Working Procedures 243

Appendix D Implementation of the WTS Method, Certification 253

Appendix E Sixteen Case Studies: From Chaos to Control 254

Appendix F Centratel's Procedure for Procedures 271

Appendix G Centratel's Communication System 275

Appendix H Business Documentation Software 279

Appendix I Other Offerings 280

Appendix J Kashmir Family Aid 281

Appendix K Copyright Infringement 282

Disclaimer 283

Index 284

About the Author 294