Linchpin

are you indispensible?

Hardcover, 244 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2010 by Portfolio.

ISBN:
978-1-59184-316-0
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OCLC Number:
430051358

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The bestselling author of Tribes and The Dip returns with his most powerful book yet Who is Seth Godin?"It's easy to see why people pay to hear what he has to say. Godin is a marketer, but in the broadest sense of the word. He's interested in not simply how products are marketed, but also how people sell themselves and their ideas, and how new technology can be a game-changer." - Time.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. . . . In the nearly ten years since his first bestseller, Godin has become a marketing phenom with a string of titles, including Purple Cow, Unleashing the Ideavirus, and his newest, Tribes. . . . Across [all] media, Godin delivers his combination of counterintuitive thinking and a …

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Commoditization of workers is deceptively attractive for business owners, in that it looks like your labor cost can be driven down with more easily replaceable workers, but it's a trap because like all commodities, it's a race to the bottom, as others copy your business for themselves, and do what you do cheaper and better.

Godin's big idea in this book is for workers to embrace their art, so that they become an irreplaceable part of the business, and for businesses to accommodate, hire, and cultivate the odd-shaped but talented, rather than standardized cogs.

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Subjects

  • Employee motivation
  • Employees -- Attitudes
  • Creative thinking
  • Value added
  • Work -- Psychological aspects