28 Jul 2010, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Leadership, 1 Comments

‘Team Players’ Are Killing Your Company

In the modern corporation, creativity has been sacrificed in favor of forwarding the interests of the “Team Player.” This is a great strategy — if we want our companies to die within the next five 5 years…

20 May 2010, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Legacy, Life, 1 Comments

The Future Of Publishing

˙ǝɹnʇnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇnoqɐ ʞuıɥʇ ǝʍ ʎɐʍ ǝɥʇ punoɹɐ uɹnʇ oʇ sn ɹoɟ ǝɯıʇ

Check out this brilliant video on the future of publishing and how we see emerging leaders.

19 Jan 2010, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 2 Comments

My Books

As the word “author” is in my website title, I thought it fitting to actually create a page about my books.

Click through for more info, including the synopsis for my brand new book coming later this year, The Silent Revolution.

14 Jan 2010, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Legacy, Life, 1 Comments

Broke*: A Film About Music

For more than a year, two of my best friends, Will Gray and Jon Kofahl, have been hard at work on a documentary about the state of the music industry and the uncertain future of independent musicians. The film is gorgeous and the story is compelling. Please support these guys, and support this conversation!

Click through to watch the trailer and read more about the film.

11 Dec 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 2 Comments

12+1 Songs You Need On Your iPod (Holiday Edition)

Even though it never snows where I live, I grew up in a place where the cold of winter seeps into your bones and December really does hold the darkest night of the year. Sparkling lights, hot cocoa, and melancholy music all seem to make more sense in that atmosphere, but the nostalgia still feels real and I’m grateful for that.

Here’s a list of some of my favorite holiday songs this season. I tried to make sure they were either slightly left-of-center (maybe even off your radar) or so extraordinarily beautiful that you simply must have them.

Happy holidays, my friends.

08 Dec 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 0 Comments

Pay What You Want For My Last Album

One of my favorite things to do is to create music. In fact, before I started working with leaders and writing books, I was playing shows with talented folks like The Fray / Sister Hazel / Mat Kearney and writing songs.

Now I produce and write music in my spare time, and I’m always keeping an eye on new music business models. I’ve just teamed up with NoiseTrade (Fair Trade Music) to offer my last album, The Let Go, for whatever price you like. Seriously!

You can even get it for free…

12 Nov 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 0 Comments

12 Songs You Need On Your iPod, Part III (Goosebumps Edition)

Welcome to Part III of 12 Songs You Need On Your iPod.

This list is something I’m calling the Goosebumps Edition. I don’t mean this in a scary, book/tv series from the nineties kind of way, but more so in a “these songs tell such heart wrenchingly beautiful stories they give me goosebumps even after I hear them a hundred times” kind of way. (more…)

08 Oct 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Life, 0 Comments

New Blog Design

Welcome to the new blog design! The Wordpress theme is called Press and was designed by the great folks at Obox.

I still have a few bugs to work out, but I’m hoping this makes the site a bit more aesthetically pleasing and my oft-long posts a bit easier for you to read…

30 Sep 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Legacy, Life, 0 Comments

New Social Media Facts!

Here’s a brand new social media facts video from the kind folks at XPLANE and The Economist.

21 Aug 2009, Posted by Josh Allan Dykstra in Legacy, 0 Comments

The Death Of Books?

The Social Media Revolution video I posted yesterday got some good dialogue going on my Facebook page, so I thought I’d bring it on over here.

A couple of my friends brought out some pretty interesting issues; the discussion went like this…