Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less (Revised 3rd Edition, 2019) - Hardcover

Carpenter, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 160832253X ISBN 13: 9781608322534

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Llc, 2011

Synopsis

Publication Date, Third Edition: October 3, 2011 (In July of 2018, Carpenter extensively revised the 6th printing of the 3rd Edition)

Work The System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, Third Edition, guides the reader in modifying his or her fundamental perception of the world, moving from an inaccurate vision of barely controlled chaos, to a more accurate one: that life is an orderly collection of individual linear systems each of which can be improved and perfected one at a time. The reader is guided through the process of ''getting'' this new vision, and then through the specifics of applying it via Carpenter's "system improvement" methodology. 

For start-ups or multinationals, the methodology is simple, believable, and mechanical; not mystical or theoretical. Carpenter developed the "systems mindset" protocol in the business he purchased in 1984 and still owns today. With that company, he moved from an 80-100 hour workweek to a 2 hour workweek, while multiplying his income dozens of times over. He is CEO of an international business consulting firm, and several other spin-off businesses, as well as an international non-profit, all of which are operated in the same systems mindset fashion. With a diverse background in engineering, construction and business management, publishing, telecommunications and journalism, he calls his approach a "workingman's philosophy." See workthesystem.com.

Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less will show the business owner how to achieve a positive macro result by looking at business and work on a micro level; by analyzing and refining the separate internal sub-systems, the systems that, added together, comprise the whole primary system business entity. Readers will learn how to "tweak" this "system of systems" in order to maximize profits, create client loyalty, and develop autonomous employees.

The strategies help business owners to quickly and dramatically improve performance as well as decrease the stress of being overtaxed and disorganized, ultimately resulting in a substantially shorter work week and a much-improved bottom line. See testimonials of readers at workthesystem.com/testimonials.

In an unusual publishing arrangement, Carpenter gives away his unabridged book in both PDF and audible formats via his website workthesystem.com. This adversely affects Amazon, NY Times, etc. book sales ratings but meets his objective of wide distribution. The book is also available in hard copy in multiple languages including Chinese, Russian, and Japanese.

About this title

About the Author

Sam Carpenter, a telecommunications professional and business owner, has a background in engineering, construction, management, publishing, and journalism. He lives in Bend, Oregon.

From the Inside Flap

After a fifteen-year nightmare operating his

own stagnant business, Sam Carpenter developed

a down-to-earth methodology that

knocked his routine eighty-hour workweek

down to just two hours--while multiplying

his income twenty-fold.

In Work the System, Carpenter reveals a

profound insight and the exact uncomplicated,

mechanical steps he took to turn his

business and life around without turning it

upside down. 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. Become a fi re-control

specialist!

* Maximize profit, create client loyalty,

and develop enthusiastic employees

who respect you.

* 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, quickly create it!

You can keep doing what you have always done,

and continue getting mediocre, unsatisfactory

results. Or you can find the peace and freedom

you've always wanted by transforming your

business or corporate department into a finely tuned machine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Llc
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160832253X
• ISBN 13: 9781608322534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 250