Ishita Gupta is founder of Fear.less Magazine, a digital magazine featuring best-known names in business on how to live without fear.
Ishita was featured in Seth Godin’s book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Category: Linchpin documentation
A resource for change makers
Bringing people together is pretty easy, but building working relationships and solidifying an organization with shared purpose is a challenge.
Frog Design put this free downloadable resource together to help make that work less of a struggle.
(via REconomy – a Transition Network project)
The Collective Action Toolkit (CAT) is a package of resources and activities that enable groups of people anywhere to organize, build trust, and collaboratively create solutions for problems impacting their community. The toolkit provides a dynamic framework that integrates knowledge and action to solve challenges. Designed to harness the benefits of group action and the power of open sharing, the activities draw on each participant’s strengths and perspectives as the group works to accomplish a common goal.
The linchpin’s language …
Dan Roam – Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work [Authors at Google]
Dan has last book “Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work”, continues where The Back Of The Napkin left off by introducing new tools and frameworks to help anyone — not just the graphically inclined — translate their ideas into useful, helpful, and understandable visuals.
Lost in creativity … ?
The digital linchpins …
The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project
The internet has intensified connections between people across the planet.
In this video we take a look at the impact of this new interconnectivity on the art world.
Traditional funding models are dissolving, new forms of expressing ownership have arisen to accomodate for remix culture, and artists are finding ways to connect physical art experiences and traditions to the internet.
In the digital era, the experience of art from the perspective of the artist and the art audience is shifting rapidly, and bringing more people into the creative process.
Imagine a life …
Imagine handing a letter to your boss that reads,
Dear Boss, I’m writing to let you know that your services are no longer required. Thanks for everything, but I’ll be doing things my own way now.
Imagine that today is your final day of working for anyone other than yourself. What if—very soon, not in some distant, undefined future—you prepare for work by firing up a laptop in your home office, walking into a storefront you’ve opened, phoning a client who trusts you for helpful advice, or otherwise doing what you want instead of what someone tells you to do?
All over the world, and in many different ways, thousands of people are doing exactly that. They are rewriting the rules of work, becoming their own bosses, and creating a new future.
The money you have is enough. Chris makes it crystal clear: there are no excuses left. START. Start now, not later. Hurry.
Seth Godin
More about the 100$ Startup and the tour …
Linchpins are also reading … 5-4-3: An Ebook Recommending Business Books
Is there a path to linchpiness … ?
Is there a path to linchpiness ?
Don McAllister seems to know which way to go :
Linchpin Mini-Manifesto: 10 Steps To Become Linchpin
Are you indispensable?
Here’s 10 steps to take to become linchpin:
Disobey the rules.
Disobey them again.
Disobey them yet again.
Disobey when it hurts.
Disobey when if feels good.
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(more on linchpinblogger here)
Be creative !
The power of Open
The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results.
Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. Now more than 400 million CC-licensed works are available on the Internet, from music and photos, to research findings and entire college courses. Creative Commons created the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data by individuals, organizations and governments. More importantly, millions of creators took advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity.
The Power of Open collects the stories of those creators.
Don’t forget to look at the resources and you’ll find a pdf in a variety of languages giving great stories of people and organisations using CC.
We are all weird, create your own cover …
Create your own “We Are All Weird” book cover
Create you own “We Are All Weird” book cover as Seth Godin suggests here.
All you need to do is upload your photo, print out the book cover we’ll make for you, and tape it on : here.
“Go ahead and invent your own cover if you like. Weird is everywhere you look, even the mirror.” – Seth Godin
Linchpins are everywhere 