
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less

ENTRY POINT #2: SYSTEMS STUDY
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
What you will be aiming at doing is systemizing your business so that it’s run by systems and not people. That way it will run smoothly and according to plan all the time.
Brad Sugars • Instant Team Building: How to Build and Sustain a Winning Team for Business Success (Instant Success Series)
When asked what they do for a living, most people describe the tasks they perform every day, not the purpose of the greater enterprise in which they take part. Most see themselves within a system over which they have little or no influence. They do their job, put in their time, and try to cope with the forces outside of their control. Consequently,
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
How can I create a business whose results are systems-dependent rather than people-dependent? Systems-dependent rather than expert-dependent.