The ideas shared in this book might seem simple. When you go through it and read the bibliography, you’ll understand the depth of the ideas and how these are grounded in first principles.
In a world where the gatekeepers are disappearing, and where everyone can start a business by setting up a website, this is the book you need to better understand how to navigate these changing times.
Flow: 5/5
Actionability: 4/5
Mindset: 4/5
Some Of My Highlights:
- “If you have job where someone tells you what to do next, you’ve just given up the chance to create value.”
- “…indispensable work is work that is connected to others.”
- “A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.”
- “If a Purple Cow is a product that’s worth talking about, the indispensable employee – I call her a linchpin – is a person who’s worth finding and keeping.”
- “Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.”
- “Now, access to capital and the ability to find one another are no longer problems.”
- “Thornton May correctly points out that we have reached the end of what he calls attendance-based compensation (ABC).”
- “It starts with bloggers, musicians, writers and others who don’t need anyone’s support or permission to do their thing.”
- “A great school experience won’t keep you from being remarkable, but it’s usually not sufficient to guarantee that you will become so. There’s something else at work here.”
- “If you want a job where you get to do more than follow instructions, don’t be surprised if you get asked to do things they never taught you in school.”
- “It is entirely possible that once you choose to become indispensable, you will no longer be loved.”
- “‘Not my job’. Three words can kill an entire organization.”
- “And when customers have the choice between faceless options, they pick the cheapest, fastest, more direct option.”
- “The only way to win is to race to the top.”
- “The world works too fast for centralized control. These systems can’t be run by a supervisor at the top of the organizational chart.”
- “Keeping up with the Joneses is not a genetic predisposition. It’s an invented need, and a recent one.”
- “Studies show us that things learned in frightening circumstances are sticky.”
- “The problem lies with the system that punishes artists and rewards bureaucrats instead.”