Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
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- ISBN13: 9781591843160
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
“The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to wield emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.”
In bestsellers such as Purple Cow and Tribes, Seth Godin taught readers how to make remarkable products and spread powerful thoughts. But this book is different. It’s about you – your choices, your future, and your potential to make a huge difference in whatever meadow you choose.
There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there’s a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things take place, and make order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They like their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.
Linchpins are the essential building blocks of fantastic organizations. Like the tiny piece of hardware that keeps a veer from falling off its axle, they may not be legendary but they’re indispensable. And in today’s world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom.
Have you ever establish a shortcut that others missed? Seen a new way to resolve a conflict? Made a tie with a name others couldn’t reach? Even once? Then you have what it takes to become indispensable, by overcoming the resistance that holds people back. Linchpin will show you how to join the likes of…
*Keith Johnson, who scours flea markets across the country to fill Anthropologie stores with unique pieces.
*Marissa Mayer, who keeps Google all ears on the things that really matter.
*Jason Zimdars, a graphic designer who got his dream job at 37signals lacking a résumé.
*David, who works at Dean and Deluca coffeeshop in New York. He sees every customer interaction as a chance to give a gift and is cherished in return.
As Godin writes, “Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It’s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you make is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.”Amazon.com Review
Amazon Exclusive: Hugh MacLeod Reviews Linchpin
Hugh MacLeod is an artist, cartoonist, and Web 2.0 pundit whose blog, gapingvoid.com, has two million unique monthly visitors. His first book, Snub Everybody, was an Amazon Top Ten Business Book of the Year and a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Linchpin:
This is by far Seth’s most passionate book. He’s pulling fewer punches. He’s out for blood. He’s out to make a difference. And that glorious, heartfelt passion is obvious on every page, even if it is in Seth’s usual silent, lucid, understated manner.
A linchpin, as Seth describes it, is somebody in an organization who is indispensable, who cannot be replaced—her role is just far too unique and valuable. And then he goes on to say, well, seriously folks, you need to be one of these people, you really do. To not be one is economic and career suicide.
No surprises there—that’s exactly what one would expect Seth to say. But here’s where it gets appealing.
In his best-known book, Purple Cow, Seth’s message was, “Everyone’s a marketer now.” In All Marketers Are Liars, his message was, “Everyone’s a storyteller now.” In Tribes, his message was, “Everyone’s a leader now.”
And from Linchpin?
“Everyone’s an artist now.”
By Seth’s definition, an artist is not just some person who messes around with paint and brushes, an artist is somebody who does (and I LOVE this term) “emotional work.”
Work that you place your heart and soul into. Work that matters. Work that you gladly sacrifice all additional alternatives for. As a effective artist and cartoonist myself, I know exactly what he means. It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it.
The only people who have a hope of apt linchpins in any organization, who have any hope of changing anything for the better in real terms, are persons who have the capacity to do “emotional work” at a high level—to be right artists at whatever they set their minds on doing. The guys who just plod around the office corridors, just turning up for their paycheck…. Well, persons guys don’t have a prayer, poor things. The world is just too appealing and competitive now.
And Seth then challenges us, the readers, to become linchpins ourselves. To make the leap. To become artists. To do emotional work, whatever the sacrifice may be. It’s our choice, and it’s our burden. Seth won’t be there to catch us if we fall, but to become the people we need to be eventually, well, we probably wouldn’t want him to, anyway.
Congratulations, Seth. You have penned a real gem of a book here. Rock on.
–Hugh MacLeod
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Appealing that all of the 91 reviewers gave this book a 5 and 4 star rating (All but one three star), agreed that most of these reviewers haven’t ever rated another book. I’ve never seen that on Amazon…anyone remember statistics class?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
There is a proverb that best describes this Seth’s book: “Trust in yourself and in your horse”. This is the same as when Jeff Jarvis said that is time of mass niches and not of mass of workers in factories. ICT opens up new jobs and new opportunities for niche. Once the ground was enough for many peasant niche. Today, the ICT platform suitable for many Web 2.0 niche. Our faith in ourselves is our niche.
Why I gave a 4? Because of this, as Seth’s writing has a way of marketing: to repeat and repeat and repeat a single thought in the whole book again and again and again and again only with additional words and sentences structures.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
basically – you have to follow your heart – otherwise, what’s really the point of all of this? This book reminds me in a way of Live Like A Fruit Glide (also on amazon)- a phenomenal book about finding your passion and following it blindly (well, nearly blindly)
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
When I received my advance, review copy of Linchpin, I ongoing to devour it with the intent to read it take in to take in in a few hours.
But,
As I read a few pages, I had to sit and reflect on what I just read and how it applied to my life.
A couple days later as I was only through the first 50 pages, I brought the book to Huntington University where I was a guest speaker and recommended it to the students.
Each day, I read a few more pages and let them sink in. This is not a quick bite to curb your hunger, it’s a tasty meal to savor and delight in, bite by bite and see where it takes you.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
To post this makes me a bit conflicted. First, it might promote sameness (in posting my art since lots of others might do it) and secondly, it is distracting me from my goals of shipping my art. But, I’ll review and prmote Seth’s gift to everyone. (huh? read the book to know)
Mr. Godin underscores the eternal conflict between our hearts (and the things we know are right, the things we know we have to do) and the notion of sameness, conformity, and lowest cost manner of language; which he says is a recent phenomena in world history. Yet, sameness has been promoted for as long as there have been slaves (ala some of the 7 wonders in the world.)
Linchpin inspires persons who need inspiration. Who might benefit the most? The many folks who went through the dot com crisis and are feeling as though they have been marginalized. Who should read it but won’t? The very people he identifies as having fallen into the trap of sameness and the ones who benefit by their exertions.
(This would have gotten five stars but it is unattributed (no references.) This might fulfill Mr. Godin’s notion of shipping; but, it doesn’t satisfy persons who wish to dive deeper into the individual notions he promotes.)
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5