Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future

Seth Godin

Little, Brown Book Group, Feb 4, 2010 - Business & Economics - 256 pages

In this 'compelling, accessible and purpose-filled book,' (Alan Webber, Founder, Fast Company) bestselling business author Seth Godin shows how you have the potential to make a big difference-and make yourself indispensable in the process-wherever you are.

Why are some people easily outsourced, downsized, or freelanced into obscurity, while others have their pick of opportunities? In his most powerful book yet, Seth Godin argues that it's more essential than ever to become indispensable - to become a linchpin. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations: they invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They love their work and pour their best selves into it and turn each day into a kind of art - and, in today's world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom.

Godin shows that the key to being indispensable is overcoming the fears that hold most of us back. If you have you ever found a shortcut that others missed, seen a new way to resolve a conflict, or made a connection with someone others couldn't reach, then you have what it takes to become indispensable. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map.

'Thousands of authors write business books every year, but only a handful reach star status and the A-list lecture circuit. Fewer still - one, to be exact - can boast his own action figure. . .Godin delivers his combination of counterintuitive thinking and a great sense of fun' BusinessWeek

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User Review  - antao - LibraryThing

I am reminded of the work of Edward Tufte, a professor of statistics and 'guru' of data visualisation, who has a particular and public loathing of PowerPoint. He famously faulted it for the Space ...

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Not remotely impressed. For two primary reasons, among others. One, this just seems like a lot of fluffy filler. I have no idea how Godin made this into a full length book because I just got the ...

About the author

Seth Godin is the author of ten international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestseller The Dip. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and include Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, and Meatball Sundae. He is also the founder and CEO of Squidoo.com (a huge and fast-growing tribe) and the most popular business blogger in the world.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future
• Author: Seth Godin
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2010
• ISBN: 0748118306, 9780748118304
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Business Ethics; Business & Economics / Careers / General; Business & Economics / Leadership; Business & Economics / Motivational; Business & Economics / Personal Success; Self-Help / General; Self-Help / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem; Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success