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Linchpins don't work in a vacuum. Your personality and attitude are more important than the actual work product you create, because indispensable work is work that is connected to others.
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work
art
indispensability
connection
The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
page: 1
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stability
art
genius
culture
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
page: 8
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art
answers
connections
We were all hunters. Then we invented farming, and we became farmers. And we were all farmers. Then they invented the factory, and we all became factory workers. Factory workers who followed instructions, supported the system, and got paid what they were worth. Then the factory fell apart. And what's left for us to work with? Art. Now, success means being an artist.
page: 18
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art
The craft of the painting, the craft of writing that email, the craft of building that PowerPoint presentation--those are the easy parts. It's the art and the insight and the bravery of value creation that are rewarded.
page: 53
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craft
art
insight
bravery
creativity
rewards
People who tell you that they don't have any good ideas are selling themselves short. They don't have ideas that are valued because they're not investing in their art.
page: 53
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ideas
investment
art
Every interaction you have with a coworker or customer is an opportunity to practice the art of interaction.
page: 57
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art
interaction
If you can write a linchpin's duties into a manual, you wouldn't need them. But the minute you write them down, they wouldn't be accurate anyway. That's the key. Linchpins solve problems that people haven't predicted, sees things people haven't seen, and connect people who need to be connected.
page: 59
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art
connection
problem-solving
Good is bad, if bad means "not a profitable thing to aspire to." Good is repeatable and easy. Repeatable and easy is replaceable. Perfect is bad, because you can't top perfect. There's no room for growth. Either you're perfect or you're not. The solution lies in seeking out something that is neither good nor perfect. You want something remarkable, nonlinear, game changing, and artistic.
page: 70
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perfect
art
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. If it's easy and risk free, it's unlikely that it's art. It is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
page: 83
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art
intent
The artist does not feel complete until they give a gift. This is more than refusing to do lousy work. It's an insistence on doing important work.
page: 87
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gifts
art
work
When you create a new use of a traditional system or technology, that's art.
page: 92
tags:
art
Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact.
page: 102
tags:
art
thinking
Every time you find yourself following the manual instead of writing the manual, you're avoiding the anguish and giving in to the resistance.
page: 107
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resistance
art
What's the point of overcoming the pain the lizard brain inflicts if all you're doing is something that doesn't matter much anyway? Trivial art isn't worth the trouble it takes to produce it.
page: 133
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art
Artists can't be easily instructed, predicted, or measured, and that's precisely what you are taught to do in business school.
page: 153
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art
business
Any time you can say "(insert well-known style)-style", it has ceased to be art and started to be a process.
page: 153
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process
art
An artist paints his painting without knowing if someone is going to buy it.
page: 154
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art
Seeing the thing, hearing the thing, understanding the thing--that's enough for it to be art.
page: 163
tags:
art
Artists don't give gifts for money. They do it for respect and connection and to cause change. They don't want a tiny gratuity or faux appreciation.
page: 167
tags:
art
gifts
appreciation
The most successful and happiest artists embrace their art, they don't look for someone to applaud them. Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable.
page: 168
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art
motivation
The reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map.
page: 188
tags:
art
The pitfalls of monetizing the thing you love: 1. In order to monetize your work, you'll probably corrupt it, taking out the magic, in search of dollars; 2. Attention doesn't always equal significant cash flow. Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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attention
art
work