Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

• Author: Sutherland, Spencer
• Position: Brief article - Book review

by Seth Godin

Reviewed by Spencer Sutherland

The premise of Linchpin is simple: Everything you know about reaching the top of the corporate ladder is wrong. Author Seth Godin asserts that since our first day of kindergarten, we've been trained not to be leaders or innovators, but assembly line workers.

How do we break out of the mold? Godin offers up several great pieces of advice. The first is to stop getting held up by the could haves, would haves and should haves, and start "shipping"--getting the product or idea out the door. The next is to focus on your work--the things that actually create change or make a difference. Too...