Linchpins Needed!

Marketing guru and author, Seth Godin has released his latest book, Linchpin. What is a linchpin? The linchpin is a little piece of hardware that helps keep a wheel on an axle. Without it your wheels fall off and you can't go anywhere. Linchpins are small but incredibly important. Godin says you can be a linchpin, "The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about."

Linchpins are people who make things happen regardless of their title. Notes on the book from the publisher:

There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there's a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.

Business, industry, education, families, churches, and even athletic teams need linchpins. Who are the linchpins in your life? Who made a difference? Who connected you, encouraged you, helped solve problems, cheered you on, or poured themselves into your education, work, life and family?

Churches are full of linchpins. We can't move without them. They are dependable, faithful, responsible, creative and most of them do what they do with little fanfare or notoriety. A linchpin in the world of faith isn't trying to bring attention to him/herself. They are more concerned about others. They are towel and basin people taking their cues from Jesus in John 13 when He washed the disciples' feet.

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