by Sam Carpenter
Carpenter argues that businesses and lives are composed of separate systems that can be individually perfected. By documenting and optimising each process, you gain control and free up time.
In this collection, Work the System is cited by 2 other books.
It’s picked up by Buy Back Your Time and A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload.
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Carpenter's book is cited alongside The Checklist Manifesto as proof that systematising business processes creates freedom and reliability.
Chapter 7
Sam Carpenter's Work the System is the subject of a three-page case study in Chapter 7. Newport uses Carpenter's story of documenting every process in his answering service business as a concrete example of how to implement a protocol-driven workflow.
Chapter 7
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