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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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179 episodes

  1. Why Some Family Businesses Last Fifty Years and Others Die in One Generation 29:19
  2. The Most Expensive Guess in Your Machine Shop 29:15
  3. You Don't Build a Legacy by Chasing Awards 16:58
  4. Culture Has a Dashboard Too 18:25
  5. Your New Administrative Assistant Is Already Here 26:34
  6. The Customer You Should Have Fired Two Years Ago 27:47
  7. Don't Build Yesterday's Job Shop 27:42
  8. Pick Up The Damn Phone! 27:06
  9. Quoting Is NOT Machining the Part 30:33
  10. The Best Manufacturing Classroom Isn't a Classroom 21:31
  11. Be Careful When Giving a Friend a Purchase Order 22:15
  12. CMMC Is Paused: The Hackers AREN'T 20:26
  13. The Backlog Is REAL: So Is the Bottleneck 29:03
  14. CMMC Hit the Brakes...Because the Arsenal Can't Wait! 40:34
  15. No One Wants to Work Overtime: Now What? 26:23
  16. The Machines Are Here! The People Aren't. 29:47
  17. The Family Business Survival Guide 22:35
  18. The Best Business Education I Never Paid For 26:17
  19. The Defense Manufacturing Boom Is Coming: Are You Ready? 17:56
  20. A Young Engineer Asked Me for 3 Pieces of Advice: Here Are Ten! 26:17
  21. MRP Is Broken: How Modern Shops Are Rebuilding Their Tech Stack 28:12
  22. When Failure Isn't an Option: Inside High-Reliability Manufacturing 32:44
  23. Space Junk, Collisions, and Control: Who's Managing the Chaos in Orbit? 33:44
  24. Rework Is Killing Your Margin: Here's How Top Shops Are Fixing It 32:02
  25. Who Packed Your Parachute? When the Supply Chain Breaks—But the Mission Doesn't 29:30
  26. Three Generations, One Exit: What It Really Takes to Sell a Machine Shop (Part Two) 22:15
  27. Three Generations, One Exit: What It Really Takes to Sell a Machine Shop (Part 1) 29:45
  28. Choosing the Wrong Automation Partner: A Shop Floor Story (Part 2) 35:03
  29. Choosing the Wrong Automation Partner: A Shop Floor Story (Part 1) 20:45
  30. The Changing Landscape of Manufacturing 39:11
  31. Manufacturing Sales Isn't What It Used to Be 23:46
  32. If I Sold the Business Tomorrow… 23:40
  33. Your 3 Uniques: The Difference Between a Commodity Shop and a Premium One 27:37
  34. Executive Throughput: Why Your Health Drives Your EBITDA 25:43
  35. Digital Is Fast. Relationships Are Slow. 25:04
  36. If You're Not Obsessing Over Cash Flow, You're Already in Trouble 27:36
  37. You Agreed to WHAT?! Flowdowns, AVLs, and the Silent Killers of Margin 28:32
  38. Leadership Through Empowerment 25:16
  39. Why I'm Back at the Table: The Real ROI of Networking and Board Service 29:41
  40. Simple Marketing Fixes Every Shop Owner Should Do Before 2026 27:38
  41. GD&T Isn't Harder — Manufacturing Just Got Less Forgiving 31:30
  42. End of 2025 Reflections: Five Decades of Precision, Perseverance, and Progress 30:37
  43. Fixing Toxic Culture: The Blueprint, the Metrics, and the Reality 24:31
  44. Calibration Frequency: How to Set It, Prove It, and Defend It 30:46
  45. Relocation Regrets: When a New Hire Becomes a $30,000 Mistake 29:05
  46. Cut Chips, Not Profits: Managing Labor Like a Pro 18:27
  47. When Branding Meets Blue Collar: Why Every Shop Needs a Marketing Engine 25:18
  48. Five Years After COVID - Where Manufacturing Was, and Where We're At 25:41
  49. TRACTION, Re-Engaged: How Leadership Discipline Drives Growth at CARR Machine 28:33
  50. LinkedIn or Look-At-Me? How the World's Largest Job Network Lost Its Job 22:03