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The EntreLeadership Podcast

#341: Are You Indispensable? with Seth Godin

The EntreLeadership Podcast

Lampo Licensing, LLC.

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

If you’re counting on a fancy title or Ivy League pedigree to make a name for yourself at work, world-renowned marketing expert and bestselling author Seth Godin says you’re sadly mistaken. In order to become truly indispensable—what he calls a linchpin in your organization—you have to bring a unique human sensibility to what you do. And no distinction or degree in the world can do that for you. Tune in to hear Seth explain exactly what it means to be a linchpin and why becoming one is key to your future success. entreleadership.com/podcast Linchpin by Seth Godin Seth's podcast on Wabi-Sabi Col. Littleton: The Great American Leather Company Free download: EntreLeadership Reading Guide Review this episode for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card Want expert help with your business question? Call 844-944-1070 and leave a message or send an email to [email protected]. You could be featured on a future podcast episode!

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's something that everyone wants, but so few actually find.

0:07.3

It's a topic that we talk about all the time in our office and certainly on this podcast.

0:12.2

Three words.

0:13.4

Work that matters.

0:15.6

We all strive for it.

0:16.6

We want to make a difference and we want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.

0:20.5

Nevertheless, all the data seems to say that this one thing is the one thing that evades

0:26.1

every level of the org chart from the intern to the CEO.

0:30.3

From the Ramsey Network, this is the Entrain Leadership Podcast where we help business leaders

0:34.4

grow themselves, their teens and their profits.

0:37.2

I'm your host Alex Judd and perhaps no one has spoken more authoritatively on this topic

0:42.7

over the past decade than my guest today, entrepreneur, thought leader and best-selling author, Seth

0:48.4

Goden.

0:49.4

And in this conversation, you will hear that at the heart of work that matters is a choice

0:53.4

you and I must both make.

0:56.0

Will you choose to be a cog that can be replaced or will you choose to be a linchpin that

1:01.5

is indispensable?

1:03.7

Seth argues that the system is stacked against you to play the role of a cog.

1:09.2

The industrial system, the one that made us all who we are today, needs cogs.

1:14.1

It needs people who are undifferentiated, replaceable, fit in the org chart into a square

1:19.5

box and most of all do what they are told.

1:23.4

Making what you are told is essential if you're going to build an institution of people

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