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Episode 35: Why Education and Training Are Key to Growing Manufacturing in the US

Spiro Technologies

Mike Nager: Yes, I went to school for an engineering degree. As a result, I’m an electrical engineer by degree. I was typically in a customer-facing position, such as applications engineering, sales, or product marketing. Adam Honig: Is this type of program primarily offered to engineering schools?

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 124: Q&A with Chandar Pattabhiram @chandarp

Heinz Marketing

For those of you joining us live, we have an increasing number of people that are doing that, thank you for joining us on the Funnel Media Radio Network. You studied mechanical engineering in college. Just kind of curious as to hear how did you make the move from mechanical engineering into B2B marketing?

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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

Clausewitz (Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general) believed that friction was as inherent to war as it is to mechanical engineering and could therefore never be eliminated but only mitigated. Friction provided opportunities and could be used by a general just as much as it could be used by an engineer.