MARCH 2010 - AudioFile
Seth Godin is back, and this time it's personal. After years of telling businesses how to stay innovative and sell more, he's now providing advice to endangered workers and managers trapped in the brave new recessionary world. Godin's advice: Workers, throw off your post-industrial chains—and attendance-based compensation employment—and become indispensable to your organizations: the "linchpin." The production is packed with engaging anecdotes, and Godin proves once again that he's the best reader of his own material. Alas, the premise—within you is an artist, genius, and otherwise remarkable person—seems a tad bright-sided, especially for out-of-work listeners and endangered managers. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
From the Publisher
"It's easy to see why people pay to hear what he has to say."
-Time
"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
"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 favor. 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
"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
Library Journal
In these difficult times, what does it take for an employee—or a manager, or a CEO—to be truly indispensable to an organization? Here, Godin (www.sethgodin.com), author of the BusinessWeek best seller The Dip (2007), lays out a plan to help readers/listeners navigate their own route toward greatness, instructing them on how to make more meaningful contributions and forge stronger connections both at work and in their personal lives. No matter if you are in the production line or in the front office, Godin believes you can improve your position by assuming the indispensable role of "linchpin" within your organization. Godin himself reads, passionate but occasionally strident as he makes his case. For business, personal motivation, and self-help collections.—J. Sara Paulk, Fitzgerald-Ben Hill Cty. Lib., GA
MARCH 2010 - AudioFile
Seth Godin is back, and this time it's personal. After years of telling businesses how to stay innovative and sell more, he's now providing advice to endangered workers and managers trapped in the brave new recessionary world. Godin's advice: Workers, throw off your post-industrial chains—and attendance-based compensation employment—and become indispensable to your organizations: the "linchpin." The production is packed with engaging anecdotes, and Godin proves once again that he's the best reader of his own material. Alas, the premise—within you is an artist, genius, and otherwise remarkable person—seems a tad bright-sided, especially for out-of-work listeners and endangered managers. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
