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Linchpin

Are You Indispensable?

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Linchpin

By: Seth Godin
Narrated by: Seth Godin
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About this listen

 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.” Career Success Employment Motivation & Self-Improvement Organisational Behavior Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Workplace & Organisational Behavior Career Inspiring Business Management

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Critic reviews

"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
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This is a well narrated book which challenges us to think about where we fit in the work of our society, how we can make ourselves valuable and stay so in changing times

Thought provoking

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vital and valuable advice, a must read for anyone wanting to improve and learn !

must read

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This book it will remind you the artist you are and it will make you feel it that is necessary to pursue this art because average people any organisation can replace but an Artist is not that easy.

How to be an artist.

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What made the experience of listening to Linchpin the most enjoyable?

always genius. listened to a few times and still love it. always galvanises me into action

love seth godin

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This was one of those books. Commute - listen, walk - listen, go to sleep - listeb, wake up - listen, go to the toilet... You get the idea. Seth always delivers, but this one hit that sweet spot for me. You don't need to be a marketer to love and need this book. You just need to be hunan.

Just beautiful

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