Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? : how to Drive Your Career and Create a Remarkable Future

Seth Godin

Piatkus, 2010 - Creative thinking - 256 pages

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.

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User Review  - danoomistmatiste - LibraryThing

A very well written and inspiring book. This book could not have come at a better time. Given the state of the economy where everyone is asked to do a lot more with a lot less, all of them have to ...

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User Review  - MartinBodek - LibraryThing

My favorite reading experience is when a book changes my way of thinking and hence, changes my life. This book is positively abrim with fantastic motivation and advice. I could spend forever poring ...

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
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Piatkus, 2010
• ISBN: 0749953357, 9780749953355
• Length: 256 pages