Linchpin : Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and 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.

MEDIA REVIEWS

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

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

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 favour. 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

For anyone who feels trapped in a labyrinth of tradition, this book is compass, map and sledgehammer - Business Destinations

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