Linchpin, Seth Godin
Linchpin, Seth Godin
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Linchpin
Are You Indispensable?

Author: Seth Godin

Narrator: Seth Godin

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/26/2010


Synopsis

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.”

About The Author

Seth Godin is the author of Tribes, The Dip, Purple Cow, All Marketers Are Liars, Permission Marketing, and other international bestsellers that have changed the way businesspeople think and act. He’s the most influential business blogger in the world and consistently one of the twenty-five most widely read bloggers in the English language. He’s also the founder and CEO of Squidoo.com and a very popular speaker. He lives in Westchester, New York.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by John on 2010-09-22 19:56:10

The author is BORING! Skip this audiobook. The author should have hired someone to read it. Monotone bordom. It was a c**** to go through.

Goodreads review by Poonam on October 14, 2013

It is indeed true, most of books such as these can be summed up in few paragraphs. Let me try and summarize 242 pages of this book. Linchpin is the person who is indispensable in the organisation, who doesn't do what he/she is being told, brings emotional labour to his job, is an artist. Thing is our......more

Goodreads review by Rob on July 01, 2012

Like many books in this genre, this book suffers from being too long. The core content, however, is fantastic. Seth's thoughts on "shipping", beating the resistance, and giving gifts were useful and inspiring. I'd recommend the audio book to anyone--makes it easier to skip past the repetitive chunks......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on July 19, 2017

Seth Godin draws on his experiences in business and life to convince the reader to be a linchpin rather than a cog in the machine of work. He says it better than I did: "This book is about love and art and change and fear. It's about overcoming a multigenerational conspiracy designed to sap your crea......more

Goodreads review by Riku on May 02, 2016

I have long suspected that Seth was a Communist-evangelist and that his books propagated the gift economy. Yes. Here is the clincher, and it is the best part of the book too. Seth’s take on: The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels This book isn’t about what you think it’s about. And......more

Goodreads review by Francis on January 15, 2011

Seriously, if you want to know why your children's school seems to not be teaching them to think, if you want to know why you hate your job, read this book. Our entire education system is built around creating good factory workers, who have no initiative and do what they're told. You may sit in a cal......more


Quotes

"It's easy to see why people pay to hear what he has to say."
-Time

"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

"This book is a gift."
-Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder, The Acumen Fund

"If Seth Godin didn't exist we'd need to invent him-that's how indispensable he is! You hold in your hands a compelling, accessible, and purpose-filled book. Read it, and do yourself a big favor. Your future will thank you!"
-Alan Webber, Founder, Fast Company

"This is what the future of work (and the world) looks like. Actually, it's already happening around you."
-Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com

"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