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Work the System - by Sam Carpenter (Hardcover)

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  • A simple mindset tweak will change your life.
  • About the Author: Sam Carpenter has owned/operated Cetratel for over four decades.
  • 325 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Development

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Book Synopsis



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 quickly knocked his routine 80-hour workweek down to near zero while multiplying his net income by a factor of 100. Now, in 2025, here's his bestselling business book, updated yet again, showing how you, too--no matter your business or profession--can quickly break free to build the life you've always imagined.

In this fifth edition of Work the System, Carpenter reveals the profound insight and exact uncomplicated, mechanical steps he took to turn his business--and 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 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 and create passionate client loyalty.
  • Develop enthusiastic long-term employees.
  • Identify and prevent insidious "errors of omissions."
  • Maximize your biological and mechanical "prime time" so you are working at optimum efficiency.
  • Design the life you want--and then create it in the real world!

You can keep doing what you've always done and continue getting disappointing results. Or you can create the peace and freedom you've always wanted by transforming your business into a finely tuned machine.



About the Author



Sam Carpenter has owned/operated Cetratel for over four decades. With a background in engineering, construction management, publishing, and journalism, he and his wife, Diana, have recently relocated from Bend, Oregon, to rural Kentucky. Sam's outside interested include mountaineering, rucking with their hounds, skiing, writing, property development, and travel. Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less was first published in 2008. His second book, The Systems Mindset: Managing the Machinery of Your Life was published in 2016 with the second edition to be released in summer of 2025. Sam is the founder and director of the nonprofit Kashmir Family Aid.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.13 Inches (H) x 5.98 Inches (W) x 1.26 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.2 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Development
Genre: Business + Money Management
Number of Pages: 325
Publisher: Ballast Books
Theme: Business Development
Format: Hardcover
Author: Sam Carpenter
Language: English
Street Date: May 13, 2025
TCIN: 1003191071
UPC: 9781964934495
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-1844
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.26 inches length x 5.98 inches width x 9.13 inches height
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