Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less

NEW Work the System 5th edition available NOW!

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.

Born and raised in upstate New York, and after four decades living in Bend, Oregon, Sam now resides in rural SE Kentucky with his wife Diana.
His professional background includes project engineering, journalism, publishing, forestry, surveying, construction management, politics (a US Senate and Gubernatorial candidate), and telecommunications.
Author and entrepreneur, he is the founder and president of Centratel ( the premier telephone answering service in the United States. He's operated the company, still headquartered in Bend, Oregon, for 38 years.
Originally published in 2008 by Greenleaf Book Group, "Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less" is now in its fourth edition (February 2021).
His second book, "The Systems Mindset: Managing the Machinery of Your Life", was published in May 2016 (thesystemsmindset.com).
Sam's outside interests include mountaineering, skiing, cycling, reading, traveling, writing his next book and, with Diana, extended "rucking" hikes with their two hounds in the surrounding Kentucky wilderness.