Work the System:

The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, Fifth Edition

Message from Sam, 7/26/2024: I’ve spent the last ten months going deep, hunkered down, bringing my book up to date, yet carefully preserving the main threads…because, of course, base reality works the same everywhere, all the time! I’ve made it easier to read and understand, added some new concepts, and addressed the economic/social earthquakes of the last five years. I’m calling this 5^th Edition the “updated for 2025, ‘unwoke’” edition. Yes, go ahead and read into that.

Yet my prime aim in the book continues to be this: bricks and mortar, virtual, retail, construction, service and/or product-producer, owner-operated, large or small staff: It doesn’t matter. Whatever the business type, dysfunction has its roots in the same foundational weakness: a fire-killing, non-systematic approach. The Systems Mindset is a simple tact, one that begins with a single “tweak” in the leader’s perspective of how a business and a life mechanically unfold. With this new “one layer deeper” vantage point, internal and external processes are starkly visible, and subsequent necessary actions are obvious.

This 5^th edition will be available on Amazon and elsewhere in hard-cover and E-book iterations on August 27th. The audio, which I’ve narrated and is still in engineering/production, will be available in September. If you want a hard copy of the 5^th Edition right now, before the official release date, send a check for $45 to our (new) address in Bend: Work the System, P.O. Box 5186, Bend, OR 97708. (We don’t do credit cards.) Within the U.S., I’ll cover the shipping cost. Outside the U.S.? Let’s chat about that shipping cost. Email us at info@workthesystem.com.