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Josh Allan Dykstra

Josh Allan Dykstra is a recognized thought leader on the future of work and company culture design. He writes and speaks about the changing world of business, helping leaders and entrepreneurs thrive in the emerging economy.
Picture of Josh Allan Dykstra

Josh Allan Dykstra

Josh Allan Dykstra is a recognized thought leader on the future of work and company culture design. He writes and speaks about the changing world of business, helping leaders and entrepreneurs thrive in the emerging economy.

What Happens When No One Is Replaceable?

Treating employees as faceless cogs can be toxic to workplace culture and hazardous to quality control, but the opposite approach takes special finesse and skill. If you’re like me, you’ve probably heard many variations of it throughout your work career: “Everyone is replaceable.” In practice, it sounds like this… “If you don’t want to do the job, there are hundreds—maybe thousands!—of people who are desperate for work and we’ll go find them.” “If you can’t do the job, there are tons of applicants out there that have your identical skills and we can bring them in to do it instead.” “If

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Our Business Is Not Warm And Fuzzy

We often bump into the idea that the kind of work we do at Forte is perceived as “warm and fuzzy” by businesspeople. (My friend Shawn just expressed something similar on his site.) The work we do isn’t “fuzzy” or “soft,” but this is quite a persistent myth. Let me explain why it’s untrue—and more importantly, why it’s vital that we all start thinking differently. The work we do certainly creates more energized and effective cultures, but it also helps mitigate serious workplace people-related challenges. Conflict, for example, is happening all the time in organizations. Sometimes it’s helpful (for example, when people are battling for the best idea to win

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Encourage The Impossible

For me doing practically anything an Olympic athlete does is impossible. For me, building the financial models that power big companies is impossible. For me, playing in the NFL is impossible. (Don’t believe me, download a few photos) It’s true that I don’t know how to do any of these things, but it’s not just a knowledge shortage I have. It’s more than that—I simply don’t have the natural gifts that would make these things possible, even if I worked my tail off for a decade or more. But what if this is OK? What if I can do different things—things that are actually quite impossible

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