Master Class Monday: Seth Godin on being a linchpin

Here is the first (of many, I’m sure!) Master Class Monday’s featuring Seth Godin.

This is a talk that he gave at Catalyst 2010 that he recently featured on Akimbo. It is crazy how relevant all of it still is a full decade later!

Seth crams an awful lot of content into 51 minutes here.

One of my favorite parts is when he talks about competence no longer being a scarce commodity in the age of Google. That is only more true 10 years later.

Seth talks about creating a movement and that people will hate your movement.

He also talks about being a linchpin, about making yourself indispensable. The age of Google has done nothing to diminish the importance of being a linchpin and nothing ever will.

TEM170: Should a project speed up or slow down (TEM Short)

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TEM170: Should a project speed up or slow down (TEM Short)

The danger is getting caught in the middle.

What You'll Learn:

  • How to avoid getting caught in the middle on projects

  • The benefits of speeding up a project

  • The benefits of slowing down a project

  • A reminder that time is a zero sum game and any time you are saying yes to anything you are by definition saying no to other things

  • Why we should apply the Pareto Principle to any given project or our portfolio careers in general

  • A great idea from Seth Godin on how to handle a project that's stalled

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