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Critics say this is Seth Godin’s most passionate book. First, he tells you, “There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do.” In his book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, he tells how to free your people so they can become artists, which means creators of unique, compelling and substantial value. If you can do it, “they will rise to a [...]

Consider the chance of success for people who never went beyond the eighth grade, never drove a car or had electricity. That describes the simple lifestyle of the Amish people. But it turns out that they have a greater chance of success in a new business than the non-Amish. U.S. Department of Labor figures show their five-year failure rate is less than 5 percent, compared to 44 percent [...]