Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Version: Unabridged (Abridged version available here)
Author: Seth Godin
Narrator: Seth Godin
Genres: Business
Publisher: Random House (Audio)
Date: February 2010
Length: 8 hours, 21 minutes
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Overview

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 happen, and create 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 love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.

Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. Like the small piece of hardware that keeps a wheel from falling off its axle, they may not be famous but they’re indispensable. And in today’s world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom. Have you ever found a shortcut that others missed? Seen a new way to resolve a conflict? Made a connection with someone others couldn’t reach? Even once? Then you have what it takes to become indispensable, by overcoming the resistance that holds people back.

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 create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.”

Reviews (3)

Terrible

Written by Anonymous on September 1st, 2011

  • Book Rating: 1/5

This book is redundant and uninsightful. Listening to this was painful

Nothing Great

Written by Anonymous on December 17th, 2010

  • Book Rating: 1/5

After 15 or so chapters, I finally gave up on this book. It's nothing special, nothing that you don't already know if you're searching for a business or marketing book.

A must read for Marketers, Biz Owners, Entrepreneuers

Written by Missy5ft2 from Crystal City, MO on June 29th, 2010

  • Book Rating: 5/5

I think the best review I could give this book would be to say that I immediately changed my perspective and changed certain behaviors - for the better- after reading this book. Seth Godin always is a wealth of information, but this book really resonates.

Author Details

Author Details

Godin, Seth

"SETH GODIN is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change.

Godin is author of six books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on the New York Times business book bestseller list.

Unleashing the Ideavirus is the most popular ebook ever written. More than 1,000,000 people downloaded the digital version of this book about how ideas spread. Featured in USA Today, The New York Times, The Industry Standard and Wired Online, Ideavirus hit #4 on the Amazon Japan bestseller list, and #5 in the USA.

The Big Red Fez, Godin's take on web design, was the #1 ebook (worldwide) on Amazon for almost a year before it was published in paperback in 2002. The Miami Herald called it one of the best business books of the year.

Survival is Not Enough has made bestseller lists in Germany, the UK and the United States. With a foreword by Charles Darwin, this breakthrough book redefines what change means to anyone who works for a living. Tom Peters called it a, ""landmark."" The book was first excerpted in Fast Company, where Godin is a contributing editor.

Purple Cow, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. It's all about how companies can transform themselves by becoming remarkable.

Free Prize Inside, Godin's latest book, is already an Amazon Top 50 bestseller. It describes how every single person in your organization is in the marketing department... and shows you how to make something happen.

Seth is a renowned speaker as well. He was recently chosen as one of 21 Speakers for the Next Century by Successful Meetings and is consistently rated among the very best speakers by the audiences he addresses.

Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, the industry?s leading interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998.

He holds an MBA from Stanford, and was called ""the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age"" by Business Week."