You may say, “But I’ll get fired for breaking the rules.” The linchpin says, “If I lean enough, it’s okay if I get fired, because I’ll have demonstrated my value to the marketplace. If the rules are the only things between me and becoming indispensable, I don’t need the rules.”
—Seth Godin, “Becoming the Linchpin,” Linchpin, p. 75, 2010.
