my TRUE POSITION
By Jim Carr
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Manufacturing Professionals will receive immediate and actionable insight into high-level issues of running a small to mid-sized manufacturing company. All communicated in an easy-to-digest 20 minutes by your expert podcaster and second-generation business owner, Jim Carr.
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End of 2025 Reflections: Five Decades of Precision, Perseverance, and Progress
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Fixing Toxic Culture: The Blueprint, the Metrics, and the Reality
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Calibration Frequency: How to Set It, Prove It, and Defend It
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Relocation Regrets: When a New Hire Becomes a $30,000 Mistake
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Cut Chips, Not Profits: Managing Labor Like a Pro
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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When Branding Meets Blue Collar: Why Every Shop Needs a Marketing Engine
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Five Years After COVID - Where Manufacturing Was, and Where We're At
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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TRACTION, Re-Engaged: How Leadership Discipline Drives Growth at CARR Machine
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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LinkedIn or Look-At-Me? How the World's Largest Job Network Lost Its Job
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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From Day One to Year One: Building Loyalty Through Onboarding
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Is This the End of the Family-Owned Machine Shop?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Signals of Success: How I Spot Future Talent in Manufacturing
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Forget the Tuition Trap: Pathways into Precision Manufacturing
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The New Shop Class: Precision, Software, and Six-Figure Trajectories
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Book Deals or Bullshit? Exposing the Vanity Press Scam
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Margins, Mistakes, and the Machines That Made Us
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Artifact What? Why AS9100 Shops Need to Step Up Their Gage Game
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Leave of Absence or Exit Strategy?
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Private Equity Wants a Piece...But What Happens After the Check Clears?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Smart Specs, Dumb Risk: Ray-Ban Meta vs. ITAR Reality
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The Great Divide: Why Machinists Don't Belong in Quality
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Low-Mix, High-Volume: Our Big Shift — and What It's Teaching Me
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Get Out and Kiss Babies: Why Your Customers Need to See Your Face
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Leads, Lies, and Lanyards: The Real Cost of Exhibiting
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Receivables Redefined: Be Firm. Be Fair. Get Paid.
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Blueprints & Blood Pressure: Why GD&T Still Gets Misread
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May 30, 2025 |
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Talk Dirty to Me: The Language of the Trade
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May 23, 2025 |
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Grit, Chips, and Change: Four Decades in the Game
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May 16, 2025 |
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How to Speak the 5 Love Languages of Business: In the Shop and Beyond
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May 09, 2025 |
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Beyond Gravity's Big Advantage: Culture You Can Feel
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May 02, 2025 |
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Grounded Leadership in Zero Gravity: A Conversation with Wesley Grove
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Inside the Coach's Corner: How EBITDA Guides Machine Shops to Thrive
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Small Shops, Big Data: AI That Doesn't Require a PhD
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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The CFO That Knows Your Shop: Why Specialized Financial Strategy Matters
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Why Are Funding Companies Blowing Up My Phone?
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Why Modern Leaders Need to Sit in the Passenger Seat
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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LinkedIn Without the Overload: A Manufacturer's Playbook
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Breaking Down AS9100 & ISO 9001: Costs, Compliance, & Commitment
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Beyond the Selfie: The Power of a Pro Headshot & Bio
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Pre-Retirement 101: What It Is & How to Prepare
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Lock It Down: Why Your Machine Shop Needs an NDA
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Overtime: Catalyst or Culture Killer?
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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What Is Your Brand, and How Does It Affect Your Business?
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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2024: Another Year Leading a Machine Shop - In Review
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Mastering Cash Flow in Manufacturing: Keep the Spread!
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Ooops! Let's Clarify the Cost of Some ERPs
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Cut the Tank: Why Generating Nitrogen Gas Beats Buying
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Next Year Starts Now: Forecasting the 2025 Impact
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Doing the GEMBA-rena: Step into the Shop Floor Groove
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Is Running Your Machine Shop a Lifestyle Business?
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Automation in 2025: Day Hurn Interviews Jim Carr
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Behind the Tanks: Who's Really Responsible for Coolant Cleanouts?
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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The REAL Costs to Scale Your Manufacturing Company
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Do Today's Young People Really Understand Our Industry?
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Re-Writing the Employee Handbook...Again!
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Easy Tips to Automate Your Shop
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Air Power: The Driving Force Behind Manufacturing Efficiency
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Why Are Manufacturers Such Poor Communicators?
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Why a Healthy Shop-Floor Environment Is Critical to Your Culture
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Passing the Torch: Why Succession Planning Can't Wait
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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How Inspection is Driving the Future of Manufacturing
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Fraudsters Are Getting Better: Tips to Not Get Screwed
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Why All The Interest in Buying Manufacturing Companies?
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Another IMTS: The Good, the Bad, and the Awesomeness
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Is Marketing for Manufacturers All Smoke & Mirrors?
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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The Best and Worst States for...?
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Generations of Success: The Fluid-Aire Design Story
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The Value of Engaging with Your Team
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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The Pain of Quoting for Free
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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A Meeting of the MasterMinds
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Inspection and Documentation in an Aerospace Environment
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Tips on How to Machine With More Passion & Precision
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Automation & Lights Out Machining: What I've Learned
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May 31, 2024 |
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More Acronyms: SQRM and SQAM
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May 24, 2024 |
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Team Production Meetings: Why They're Important
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May 17, 2024 |
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Hear It Again: College vs. Trades
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May 03, 2024 |
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Answering the Eight Questions: Core Values
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Finding Your Network: For All the Right Reasons
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Factory Focus: Fine-Tuning HR Practices for Manufacturing Compliance
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The Big Move to a PEO: What I've Learned
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Precision Pursuits: Engineering Corporate Growth; Financial, Mental, Physical Resilience
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Beyond Limits: Exploring the Boundaries of Pushing Yourself
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Engineering a CNC Machine Shop: What Two Friends Learned
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Rebranding Your Company: What, Why, and How?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Planning for 2024: Financial, Staffing, Equipment, Budgeting and More!
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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It's True: We're Really Paperless!
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Don't Be Fooled: It's Not Easy to Start a Machine Shop
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Anguish, Agony and Lessons Learned :The 2008 Great Recession
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Keeping the Conditions Healthy on the Shop Floor
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Are You Ready to Retire?
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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New Year, New Goals
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Gaining Extreme Value From Your MEP
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Safety on the Shop Floor: Why It's Important
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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We're Only Quoting the Job Not Machining It
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Creating Data Packages for an AS9100 Machine Shop
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Employment Agreements: Why They're Important
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Buying Equipment on Speculation: Right or Wrong?
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Writing a Resume 101 and Tips on Interviewing
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Marketing for Manufacturers: It's Not All Smoke and Mirrors
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Scaling Your Business: Risk vs. Reward
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Managing the EBITDA
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Manufacturing Leaders Leading
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Optimizing Value-Add Services From Your Vendors
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Implementing EOS With an Implementer
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Crafting a Culture for Your Machine Shop
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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AS9100 Certification: Is It Worth It?
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Recession Blues: Are We or Aren't We?
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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DPAs Rated Purchase Orders: Risky Business?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Industrial Real Estate: Lessons Learned
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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I Was Wrong: 5 Axis CNC Machining Rocks
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Implementing Margin Time for Yourself
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Nurturing Future Champions in Manufacturing
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Nepotism or Nonsense?
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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War Room Meetings: Do They Help or Hinder?
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Traction With Traction: How We Blasted Off!
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Losing a Multi-Million Dollar Customer Over a Social Post
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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BIG(er) Manufacturing Associations: What's the Difference?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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The Effectiveness of Performance Reviews
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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What Is Pay by the Minute? Changing an Old School Philosophy
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May 31, 2023 |
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How to Get the Most of Your Manufacturing Association
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May 24, 2023 |
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Manufacturing Success: Two Young Sisters Show Us How to Run a Business After a Loss
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May 17, 2023 |
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What to Look for When Choosing and Joining a Manufacturing Association
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May 10, 2023 |
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Buying a Machine Shop: Desirable or Detrimental?
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May 03, 2023 |
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Manufacturing: Tall Tales From the Shop Floor
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Beware of the Opportunist
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Why Good Communication Is Key
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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War Room Meetings: Do They Help or Hinder?
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Taking on Debt: Is It Worth It?
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Parting Ways With a 21 Year Employee
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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CYBER Fraud: It's Only A Matter of Time
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Manufacturing Leaders: Unite!
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Being the Policeman: Implementing Disciplinary Actions
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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SAFETY in the SHOP and $AVE
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Moving the Machine Shop After 40 Years
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Best Practices for Borrowing Money in an Inflationary Economy with Ty Willis
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Remembering Reverse Auctions: Are They Making a Comeback?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Organic Growth vs Acquisition: What Direction to Take
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Continuing on in the Family Business When Dad Has a Girlfriend
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Feb 01, 2023 |