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

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Greenleaf Book Group, Jan 10, 2011 - Business & Economics - 250 pages

 A Simple Mindset Tweak Will Change Your Life.

After a fifteen-year nightmare operating a stagnant service business, Sam Carpenter developed a down-to-earth methodology that knocked his routine eighty-hour workweek down to a single hour—while multiplying his bottom-line income more than 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 fire-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 that runs on autopilot!

 

Contents

Its Just Mechanics
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Control Is a Good Thing
Events Did Not Unfold as Anticipated
The Attack of the Moles
GuntotheHead Enlightenment
Creating the Machine
Systems Revealed Systems Managed
Errors of Omission
Quiet Courage
PointofSale Thinking
Extraordinary Systems Operated by Great People
Consistency and Cold Coffee
Grease for the Wheels
Prime Time
The Traffic Circles of Pakistan

Getting
Swallowing the Horse Pill
We Are Project Engineers
Your Strategic Objective and General Operating
Good Enough
Centratels Strategic Objective
Sample Working Procedures
The Work the System Academy
Ockhams Razor and the
Centratels Communication System

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