5 Books that changed my perspective (and why)

Linchpin by Seth Godin

I first encountered Seth Godin when this book appeared on the Air Force Chief of Staff’s reading list. Our Commander put out a voluntary program wherein we could read a book from the list on duty and use some of the duty day to build a presentation on the given topic to the unit. I read Linchpin and was captivated. Here was a framework that gave form to a philosophy, a system of work and life, I’d been practicing without articulating it. It’s become somewhat cliche to tell people they can lead from any level of an…