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Each week, Ari Santiago interviews a thriving manufacturing leader to share the positive messages around the industry with two goals:

1) To share best practices amongst manufacturing business leaders to help each other to grow and succeed

2) To spread the word that manufacturing is a growing part of our economy and offers exciting opportunities for incredible, well-paying careers 

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Ari Santiago is the CEO of CompassMSP a Technology Managed Service Provider with offices from Miami to Milwaukee and down the eastern seaboard. He has a passion for the manufacturing industry and the incredible impact it makes on our economy.

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This podcast is brought to you by CompassMSP - www.compassmsp.com

Produced by Miceli Productions - www.miceliproductions.com

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  2. Nailing down quality and culture with Rick Skidmore, Timberlane

Nailing down quality and culture with Rick Skidmore, Timberlane

Jul 29, 2024

This week we welcome Rick Skidmore, Founder and CEO of Timberlane. Timberlane hand-crafts beautiful, high quality wooden shutters. They have also crafted an incredible company culture thanks to implementing some of the best current business theories on continuous improvement and organizational structure. 

On this episode, Rick shares how he puts theory into practice building a continuous improvement mindset into the company culture. He talks about scalability, goal setting, and chunking down those big goals into small actions. 

Rick and Ari also talk about how to think about marketing - which is a sticking point for many manufacturers. Finally they discuss the incredible value of executive peer-to-peer networking groups with one of the strongest statements of endorsement we've ever had on the podcast!   

 

A fantastic episode from beginning to end. 

Rick's favorite business books: 
The E-Myth, Michael Gerber
From Strength to Strength, Arthur C. Brooks 

Rick Skidmore, Timberlane
Website: https://www.timberlane.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/timberlane-inc- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimberlaneInc/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/timberlaneinc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TimberlaneInc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timberlane_inc/ 
 Rick Skidmore's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-skidmore-b386b69 

Ari Santiago, CEO, CompassMSP
Company Website: https://compassmsp.com/ 
 Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compass-msp/
Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MadeinAmericaPodcast
Podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/made-in-america-podcast-with-ari Podcast YouTube:  https://youtube.com/c/MadeinAmericaPodcastwithAri
Ari's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asantiago104/  

 Podcast produced by Miceli Productions: https://miceliproductions.com/
Podcast executive production by Gael Communications: https://www.gaelcommunications.com/ 

Rick and Ari discuss: 
Quality, continuous improvement, company culture, executive peer-to-peer networking, and marketing