"Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?" Quotes
"Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?" by Seth Godin encourages readers to become indispensable in their work by embracing creativity, taking initiative, and making a unique contribution.
business | 244 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
What people are afraid of isn’t failure. It’s blame. Criticism.
The resistance is waiting. It knows what you’re afraid of. It understands how you feel about risk, about being laughed at, about failure.
Our economy has moved from the assembly line to the factory floor, to the office, and now to a guy sitting at a keyboard.
Art is what we’re doing when we do our best work.
Your work is your art. The act of creating something with intent and passion.
A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.
The competitive advantages of the past are gone. Being better is not the answer.
The linchpin is an artist. Someone who can’t be easily replaced.
