Work the System (Fourth Edition)

The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less

De: Sam Carpenter

Narrado por: Sam Carpenter

A simple mindset tweak will change your life.

It started with a midnight insight. After a 15-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 best-selling 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.

©2021 Sam Carpenter, Josh Fonger (P)2021 Greenleaf Book Group

Mid review. Where we going?

I’m nearing the end of chapter 4 and all I know is that Sam overcame adversity and used “systems” and “sub systems” to fix things… No details on what these look like yet.

Someone rewrite this for a generation that requires less foreplay.

I wasn't impressee.

I get his point, but it dragged on too long for me to stay interested. instead of being straightforward, he beat around the bush in a way. It was just too stretched out to stay interested. A lot of people recommend this book, but it's not for me.

Great book despite slow start

Thoroughly enjoyed this book however I got a bit bored in the beginning when the introduction took forever! It delivers just before the end and is worth reading for anyone who read emyth.

Needs some serious editing

The content of the book is good. I've read/listened to several now on process management and process development for business. What's in this book helped fill in the gaps on some of the things I was trying to discover.

But holy cow... this book would have seriously benefited from having an editor who was ruthless.

There is more fluff in the book than a Build A Bear. Seriously... I don't need to hear how Sam was a basket case, divorced, living in a couch in the office, etc., etc., 92 times... and then in an epiphany he discovered processes...

I get it. First, I don't care. Second the WIIFM on this is I want to solve my problem - making business processes. Look, you already have my money - I bought into the idea you might have knowledge about how to solve my problem. I don't need 9 hours of you going on and on "things were never easy for me - I was born a poor black child" (since the author loves movies so much).

It gets in the way of actually getting any useful information out of this book. Now, some folksy narrative - ok fine. But wow, I get it was traumatic... but again - I don't care. I'm glad you figured out life and wrote the book. But again - I don't care about how hard it was for you. You don't have to sell me that you know what works... at least not like 9 times across 15 chapters. I got it. Just tell me the "process" for deriving the answer already...

So, if you're willing to skip around and hunt and peck (thank Christmas for that feature)... it's not a half-bad book.

If an editor had a clue... and beat on the author relentlessly to make a cogent narrative and get to the "pickle" earlier on ... it would have been an amazing book.

Great concept, but redundant

The author spends the first nine chapters explaining one simple idea: treat every part of your life as a collection of systems. That’s it. But he drags it out for nine chapters, which feels ironic, because the delivery is the opposite of systematic.