David Fojtík
Partner, Key Account Manager
Something for work
David founded our company in 2003 and found his self-realization in humancraft. He enjoys leading this great team, starting new things and looking for meaningful solutions with clients. He believes that the engine of business is people and that corporate culture eats strategy for breakfast. He likes to lecture on the parallels between leadership in the mountains and in business.
Something personal
David is a mountaineer at heart, so he likes freedom and big challenges. He's low-key and doesn't look like the guy who climbed Everest without oxygen and became the first person in the world to ski down another 8,000-meter mountain, Dhaulagiri. Since he has three beautiful children at home, you won't see him so much in the mountains anymore, but rather on his yellow scooter, which he regularly commutes to work.
1) How would you describe your work in one sentence?
I lead humancraft, which is currently mainly the coordination of our activities so that we move further and higher:) I also still sell, sometimes still train, and historically I am responsible for our finances.
2) What has influenced you in your life and how is it reflected in your work?
I still remember how my dad once explained to me in my childhood the Greek concept of kalokagathia, which is a kind of ideal of harmony of body and soul. Well, my two biggest hobbies are sports and reading. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not:) Sport brings purposefulness and discipline to my working life, while reading broadens horizons and stimulates thought.
3) Why do you work for humancraft?
Because I founded it with my partners:) What keeps me here is a great group of people, our company culture and the adventure of doing business. Well, I probably wouldn't last 20 years here if I just didn't enjoy it...
4) What has been your biggest challenge in humancraft so far?
The biggest challenge is balancing our dynamic growth with service quality. We are already so big in terms of the number of people, our turnover and the range of services that we have been trying to implement the EOS system for some time, which is similar to the better-known scale-up in our country.
4) What effect does your work have on your personal development and professional path?
The very nature of our business makes me constantly push myself, self-development just never ends :)
6) What do you think are the biggest challenges facing corporate education today and how does humancraft try to solve these challenges?
In addition to the technological boom and the change of generations, the age-old challenge (not only) of our field is the so-called "knowledge-doing gap". Why people don't actually do what they know they should do. The efficiency of applying knowledge to real practice is about 15%, which is the level of a steam engine. Well, we at humancraft are trying to improve it in every possible way. :)