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Are you an entrepreneur or a manager, and feel like every day at work you’re just putting out fires? Or in your personal life, do you go home and it’s just crisis after crisis that needs fixing? Our typical response to managing the chaos is to get more efficient at putting out those fires. What if the real answer though is not greater efficiency, but instead looking at your life as a series of systems? That’s what today’s guest, Sam Carpenter, argues in his book Work The System<\/a>.<\/em> Today on the show we discuss how to approach work and life with a systems mindset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you an entrepreneur or a manager, and feel like every day at work you’re just putting out fires? Or in your personal life, do you go home and it’s just crisis after crisis that needs fixing? Our typical response to managing the chaos is to get more efficient at putting out those fires. 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