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Episode 24 - Charting Your Own Course
Dan and Tony discuss how different management styles shaped Dan’s career across machining, sales, and manufacturing. Dan reflects on his only truly hands-on manager early on, who pushed long hours and closely tracked time in a way that felt like micromanagement, though Dan later came to respect the work ethic and see it as a formative “boot camp” while he was new to selling machined parts. As Dan moved into sales director roles and worked with multiple shops—from a commission-based marketing setup to an Alabama shop, a $200M Bay Area manufacturer, and Formlogic—management became mostly…
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