Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career & create a remarkable future

In this compelling, accessible and purpose-filled book bestselling business author Seth Godin shows how you have the potential to make a big difference-and make yourself indispensable in the process-wherever you are. 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. Review A compelling, accessible and purpose-filled book -- Alan Webber, Founder, Fast Company 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 For anyone who feels trapped in a labyrinth of tradition, this book is compass, map and sledgehammer, BUSINESS DESTINATIONS, February 10 This is what the future of work (and the world) looks like. Actually, it's already happening around you, Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos.com 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 compeeling, accessible and purpose-filled book. Read it, and do yourself a big favour. Your future will thank you!, Alan Webber, Founder, FAST COMPANY Book Description This life-changing manifesto shows how you have the potential to make a difference wherever you are From the Back Cover This powerful book is all about you - your choices, your future and your potential to make a huge difference in whatever field you choose. There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labour. 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. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organisations - they are 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 others couldn't reach? Even once? Then you have what it takes to become a linchpin. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Only you can do it - and you must. '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 favour. Your future will thank you!' - Alan Webber, Founder, Fast Company Author Bio 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.