It’s interesting that the Dip wasn’t your thing. I didn’t get it on my first pass of it, but I listened to the audio version on a trip and it really sank in then. It came at a time in my life that I needed to think seriously about how I was going to thrive, and, clearly, doing everything wasn’t making it happen.

You’re right about some of his work being pretty basic. So is the Golden Rule. And the Tao Te Ching. Implementing the stuff is the hard part.

I think you should read Linchpin, for a couple of reasons:

1) There’s a bit of a discussion of conflict theory and educational theory there that I think you’ll appreciate being mentioned. I doubt you’ll like that it stays on the surface level, but I think you’ll appreciate it nonetheless.
2) Like Tribes, I’m sure it’ll introduce some viral memes. It’s good for a critic to read the source and react to it rather than the commentary.

Given your comment, I’m pretty sure we disagree about the impact of Tribes. The same book that “co-opted the tools of grassroots political organizing for commercial causes” can also be used to make those grassroots political and social organizations much more effective. True, entrepreneurs have absorbed and implemented the ideas more, but should we blame the Wright Brothers for the B-1 Bomber?

The institutions that were once the outlet for social change are now either bankrupt, apathetic, or highly ineffective, and it turns out that entrepreneurs are often in the best position to actually affect social change. Unfortunately, the same people who were once catalysts for change now stall it because of their long-standing views of capitalism, business, and entrepreneurs, in general.

Obviously, you and I will disagree about this – at least in the details – but there’s a long conversation to be had here. Perhaps for another day?

I’m still lost in underlining, pulling quotes, dog-earing the pages and trying to convince everyone I know that they need to get their hands on a copy of this book.

I also loved The Dip (probably quit my last job because of it) and I think Linchpin goes a step further and offers a multitude of concepts to digest.

Kudos on a great review! Thanks for sharing your art.
.-= Megan Strand´s last blog ..A Letter to Everyone On Seth Godin’s Linchpin =-.

I won’t be purchasing Linchpin after seeing what I think to be the damage done by “Tribes”–co-opting the tools of grassroots political organizing for commercial causes.

Perhaps Godin’s best quality is his ability to create vocabulary used in the blogosphere.
.-= Duff´s last blog ..The “Negative Social Mood” and Bill Harris =-.