Book HackWork the SystemBy Sam Carpenter
In a Nutshell
Work The System will fundamentally change the way you view the world, by showing you the systems all around you and giving you the guiding principles to influence the right ones to make your business successful.
Favorite Quote
Too many of us are paralyzed in the static snapshot of how we think things should be instead of working with the mechanics of the world as it is. Life is not a snapshot; it’s a real-time, streaming video—and the video plays on whether we participate in it or not.
Sam Carpenter
Introduction
We often go through life putting out fires as they happen, looking for someone to blame.
But the constraints we face are often the result of larger processes that are part of systems - systems we can learn to manage.
Sam Carpenter has been the CEO and president of Centratel, one of the US's top providers of phone answering services for over three decades, during which time he developed what he calls 'a systems mindset.'
Over the course of his career, Carpenter learned how to spot systems everywhere, and optimize the ones he could control, turning this approach into a business philosophy.
Work The System is a holistic description of the nature of systems, their ubiquity in life and nature, and how you can use systems for yourself to optimize your life.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
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