Seth Godin designed this framework to explain what Linchpin Jobs are:

I did a quick makeover of the diagram, keeping the design super simple (life is too short to be spending designing charts at your desk):

• Move from an XY to a 2x2 layout to make it easer to read the axis

• Changing the labels of the boxes, axes to get rid of excess text, make them more consistent

• Change the colours so that the cog jobs stand out (I think they are worse than what I call “lazy specialist” roles

Cover image credit: Jared Goralnick