Work the System (5th Edition)

De: Sam Carpenter

Narrado por: Sam Carpenter

A Simple Mindset Tweak Will Change Your Life.

It started with a midnight insight. After a fifteen-year nightmare of coping with his chaotic business, Sam Carpenter discovered and then developed a simple methodology that knocked his routine 80-hour workweek down to near-zero, while multiplying his net income by a factor of one hundred. That was in 1999. Now, for 2025, here’s his bestselling business book in a completely updated post-COVID version, showing how you, too, can break free to build the business and life of your dreams . . . no matter the outside influences.

In Work the System, Carpenter reveals the profound insights and exact, uncomplicated, mechanical steps necessary to turn any struggling business around . . . or to add substantial bottom-line to one that is not struggling. Once you “get” this startling 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.”

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

In the last five years, the socio/economic business world has been turned upside down, yet the very basics of business and life success have not changed. Whatever the outside world challenges, you can transform your businesses into a finely tuned machine that runs smoothly and profitably on autopilot. Make More. Work Less.

©2024 Sam Carpenter (P)2024 Sam Carpenter

Takes Personal Shots at People

Decent, not great, information. It would have been better if the author left his purely subjective political views out of it. They didn’t support the overall message of the book which is the importance of systems in a business.

Agonizing and self indulgent

Someone needs to edit this book as if it were the first edition. After five editions, it appears the author can’t help but add more and more self indulgent stories into this book. It’s like no one has read the book with fresh eyes in many years. It is so repetitive, so full of random anecdotes, that I find it one of the most agonizing audiobooks I’ve ever listened to. The kernel of a great book is in here somewhere, and it teaches good lessons. If you found E Myth agonizing to listen to with Sarah’s cupcakes, this book might be even worse. What is the deal with authors writing about systems, that causes them to write the least systematic and most all-over-the-place books of all time?

I thought it was AWFUL

I was really disappointed. This book was awful. He just blabbed on and on and on...never giving specifics and boring me to death. At one point I actually said out loud "Will you SHUT UP and Get to the Point!!!"

I will save you HOURS : He had a business...it was struggling for years...he realized something had to change...so he developed systems. The rest is filled with this guy listening to himself talk. I activated my System for Not Wasting My Time..Just AWFUL.

He seems like he wants to be more of a "culture warrior" against the woke libs after watching too much Fox News and spouting opinions instead of offering actual Business Advice.

Great introduction to systems - ignore the haters

We’ll leave this review focused on the actual intended subject matter vs people’s political or straight up irrelevant complaints.

For someone who has a job, career, or business with an output very much tied to the effectiveness and quality of their thought process and decision making abilities.

(In my case agency work that requires technical & creative abilities at neck break speeds. With constantly changing roles, responsibilities, & entire overnight shifts in market due to new tech/AI)

This book has a holistic approach to systems thinking through interwoven stories and use cases.

He says from the start that this book is NOT a classic “how to” blueprint of systems methodologies. Why people drop poor reviews because they expected otherwise is silly.

What you get from this book is a foundation of mental/behavioral models with a sprinkle of action steps.

aka true lessons/learning from someone who’s clearly a black belt at what he preaches.

If you’re new to systems and want to go from fire fighting to prevention by leveraging systems thinking - then this is the starting place.

Then go get Thinking In Systems next and thank me later.