I am reading Seth Godin’s book, “Linchpin” and liking it so much I couldn’t resist sharing some excerpts. The read is both practical and inspiring. More than that, in Linchpin, Mr. Godin provides a framework for understanding what is required to succeed in the new, post-crash economy. He points out that corporations once valued solid, but replaceable cogs in organizations that produce products and services for mass consumption. But in today’s world, human connectors – linchpins are what organizations require to thrive in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Here are some excerpts:
What we want, what we need, what we must have are indispensable human beings. We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care. We need marketers who can lead, salespeople able to risk making a human connection, passionate change makers willing to be shunned if it is necessary for them to make a point. Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference. Some organizations haven’t realized this yet, or haven’t articulated it, but we need artists.
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
This is your opportunity. The indispensable employee brings humanity and connection and art to her organization. She is the key player, the one who’s difficult to live without, the person you can build something around.
What Would Make You Impossibly Good At Your Job?
If your organization wanted to replace you with someone far better at your job than you, what would they look for? I think it’s unlikely that they’d seek out someone willing to work more hours, or someone with more industry experience, or someone who could score better on a standardized test.
No, the competitive advantage the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion.
The linchpin brings the ability to lean. He can find a new solution to a problem that has caused others to quit. His art, his genius, is to reimagine the opportunity and find a new way to lean into it.
Beginners luck is dramatically overrated.
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
Successful people learn from failure, but the lesson they learn is a different one. They don’t learn that they shouldn’t have tried in the first place, and they don’t learn that they are always right and the world is wrong and they don’t learn that they are losers. They learn that the tactics they used didn’t work or that the person they used them on didn’t respond.
This is a great read and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in developing and applying the qualities that make them indispensable.
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