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Lessons From The Drive Thru: Real Life Wisdom for Frontline Leaders

October 17, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Lessons From The Drive Thru: Real Life Wisdom for Frontline Leaders

Lessons From The Drive Thru: Real Life Wisdom for Frontline Leaders | Monica Rothgery, 2024 What’s It All About? What does a Taco Bell drive-thru have to do with manufacturing? When it comes to connecting the top to the shop, a drive thru and a manufacturing floor actually have a lot in common! In her … Read More

The Reset Mindset: How to Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster

September 3, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The Reset Mindset: How to Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster

The Reset Mindset: How to Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster | Penny Zenker, 2024 What’s It All About? In a fast-paced industry like manufacturing, focus and clarity are key. In her new book The Resent Mindset: How to Get Unstruck, Focus on What Matter Most, and Reach Your … Read More

The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

August 4, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team | Patrick Lencioni, 2022 What’s It All About? We all have something at work that brings us joy and energy… and on the flip side, we all have work tasks that make us feel frustrated and burnt-out. … Read More

The Time To Win: How to Exceed Customers’ Need for Speed

July 3, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The Time To Win: How to Exceed Customers’ Need for Speed

The Time To Win: How to Exceed Customers’ Need for Speed | Jay Baer, 2024 What’s It All About? We all only have so much time available to us, and how we spent our valuable time is more important than ever. In The Time to Win: How to Exceed Customers’ Need for Speed, Jay Baer … Read More

The High-Impact Manager: Your Blueprint for Bringing Out the Best in Your Team

June 3, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The High-Impact Manager: Your Blueprint for Bringing Out the Best in Your Team

The High-Impact Manager: Your Blueprint for Bringing Out the Best in Your Team . | Justin Patton, 2024 What’s It All About? On our website, we don’t often review multiple books by the same author… but when we do, you know it means we’ve struck gold! This is the case with Justin Patton, who wrote The … Read More

Unleash Your Primal Brain: Demystifying How We Think and Why We Act.

May 10, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Unleash Your Primal Brain: Demystifying How We Think and Why We Act.

Unleash Your Primal Brain: Demystifying How We Think and Why We Act. | Tim Ash, 2021 What’s It All About? Understanding the past plays a powerful role in how we evolve, think, and behave. How can we learn more about our past and harness that information to improve the way we think and act? Find … Read More

Your Road to Yes!: How to Build Trust in Yourself and With Others

April 25, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Your Road to Yes!: How to Build Trust in Yourself and With Others

Your Road to Yes!: How to Build Trust in Yourself and With Others | Justin Patton, 2022 What’s It All About? There’s an antidote to every issue in your organization: trust! When you build trust into the foundations of your team or organization, it becomes much easier to address toxic relationships, improve communications, and create … Read More

10X is Easier than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less

March 20, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
10X is Easier than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less

10X is Easier than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less | Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy, 2023 What’s It All About? I love when a book’s title makes its core message clear—and 10X is Easier than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less does exactly that! In his book, … Read More

Built to Finish: How to Go the Distance in Business and Life

February 1, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Built to Finish: How to Go the Distance in Business and Life

Built to Finish: How to Go the Distance in Business and Life | Steven Pivnik, 2024 What’s It All About? What do you get when you mix a serial entrepreneur and an intense endurance sport? One heck of a story! In Built to Finish: How to Go the Distance in Business and Life, information technology … Read More

Infinite Influence: Captivate, Connect, and Compel Anyone, Anytime

January 16, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Infinite Influence: Captivate, Connect, and Compel Anyone, Anytime

Infinite Influence: Captivate, Connect, and Compel Anyone, Anytime | Alyson Van Hooser, 2023 What’s It All About? When we have conversations on the shop floor, we’re often in a state of influence—and how we show up for those conversations impacts the outcome. If you are curious and intentional, you’re more likely to get your desired … Read More

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Whether you’re a plant manager, operations manager, or frontline supervisor, you’ll discover practical strategies for lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. We cover critical topics like workforce development, employee retention, safety culture, and change management—helping you navigate challenges like labor shortages, skills gaps, and the evolving manufacturing landscape including Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing.

Trevor Blondeel invites guests from the manufacturing industry (and beyond!) to have candid discussions about leadership and share stories from a place of experience, transparency, and authenticity. You’ll find new ways to manufacture greatness by leveraging resources you already have acheiving greater retention, productivity, and profits.

A Reporter Calls Me Every Week Asking Who’s Laying Off with Jason Bates │ Manufacturing Community │ Ep. 183
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A reporter calls Jason Bates every week looking for the big layoff story. The five-hundred-people-let-go story. Jason keeps telling him the truth: layoffs are happening, in small numbers. So is hiring. But the catastrophe the headlines want isn’t what he sees across hundreds of Ontario plants every day. Trevor sits down with Jason, Manufacturing Consortium Manager at EMC, Canada’s largest manufacturing consortium, to unpack what’s really going on, the plants that are quietly adjusting and diversifying, and the peer community most owners haven’t tapped into. Growth doesn’t sell papers. Manufacturing team leadership doesn’t happen inside your four walls. The vast majority of plants are doing just fine. Most owners don’t know that.

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A Reporter Calls Me Every Week Asking Who’s Laying Off with Jason Bates │ Manufacturing Community │ Ep. 183
A Reporter Calls Me Every Week Asking Who’s Laying Off with Jason Bates │ Manufacturing Community │ Ep. 183
July 8, 2026
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Every Time You Say Yes, You’re Saying No to Something │ Manufacturing Team Leadership │ Ep. 182
July 1, 2026
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The Team Member You’ve Quietly Given Up On with Nir Eyal │ Talent Development │ Ep. 181
June 24, 2026
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It’s Thursday and the Report Isn’t Done. Where Did It Break? │ Manufacturing Team Leadership │ Ep. 180
June 17, 2026
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The Most Important Leader Has No Title with Jason Hopper │ Manufacturing Team Leadership From the Floor │ Ep. 179
June 10, 2026
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Three Questions That Turn “We Told Them” Into “We Got It Done” | Manufacturing Team Leadership | Ep. 178
June 3, 2026
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The Unwritten Rule That Quietly Ran His Whole Plant with Ryan Forte │ Manufacturing Team Leadership │ Ep. 177
May 27, 2026
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Why Write-Ups Break Trust and What to Do Instead | The Accountability Gap | Ep. 176
May 20, 2026
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Culture of Ownership in Manufacturing: How Owners Stop Being the Bottleneck with Josh McKain | Ep. 175
May 13, 2026
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When ‘You Should Just Know’ Stops Working | Communication Skills #174
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