Dustin Snyder
Founder & Chief Advisor, Wayforward. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Dustin Snyder is an organizational consultant who created the Strategic Workforce Insight Mapping (SWIM) diagnostic framework to analyze workforce behavior through systems thinking and behavioral science. A former President of Aurubis AG's U.S. manufacturing division, he is the author of Sink or SWIM.
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Everything Dustin Snyder said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Snyder: Founders Wrongly Blame Early Teams for Failing to Scale
“A lot of the times you'll have founders who say, oh, like my original team can't scale with me, which, you know, sometimes that's correct, but a lot of times it's just a misdiagnosis. Like when growth starts to break things on the human side, founders tend to …”
Snyder: Design Organizations by Time Horizons, Not Management Tasks
“Often people are thinking about layers of management as layers of tasks. And really you have to think about your organization as layers of time horizons. You know, your frontline is working on today. The things that are happening today, you know, if you add a …”
Snyder: AI Cannot Yet Extract Deep Insights or Conduct Trust-Building Interviews
“Pulling the deeper insights. I think that's the nice thing is that AI is not quite there yet. That still does, you know, take some judgment and experience and expertise. But and, you know, AI also can't sit down with employees and use the techniques that we're…”
Snyder: Startups Break When Growth Removes Founders From Daily Osmosis
“Early companies tend to run on, like, founder proximity. Like, you're in every room. Decisions tend to happen by osmosis. Like, the culture comes from your actual physical presence. And none of that gets designed intentionally because it never had to be. Like,…”
Snyder: Doubling Headcount in One Year Dilutes Organic Startup Culture
“If you double your head count in a year, That means most of your company has never worked under the original conditions when you were, you know, bootstrapping things. And so there's this tipping point where the ratio of some people who are like acculturated to…”
Snyder: Employees Deeply Distrust the Confidentiality of Corporate Software Platforms
“There's still tremendous amount of distrust when it comes to tech platforms that a company is deploying and the anonymity, the confidentiality of the interactions that you're having with that which I think in, in some cases is unfounded and in others is well-f…”
Snyder: 90% of Industrial Workers Do Not Use Computers Regularly
“So, you know, the energy sector, infrastructure, construction, manufacturing, fabrication a lot of these industries, 90% of the workforce, Is not really using a computer at that level.”
Snyder: Talking to $25/hr Shop Workers Outperforms Executive Spreadsheets
“I became a much better Executive. I was doing better things at the market level. I was doing better things at the strategic level. When I spent, started spending the majority of my time speaking to, you know, the guy that's making 25 dollars an hour on the sho…”
Snyder: Claude Enterprise Cut Data Analysis Time From Weeks to Days
“We do use AI now, so we have a enterprise account through Claude, through Anthropic, and that has significantly sped it up. I mean, that was about two weeks of manual data formatting and crunching to accomplish the analysis five years ago, and today that the f…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dustin's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 WE LIVE TO BUILDLEDGER | Founder & Chief Advisor, Wayforward | 1 | 9 | — | full record on We Live to Build → |