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

Spiro Technologies

I worked on several USPS projects, the Postal Service with high-speed sortation and delivering of packages, mail, and letters, and things of that nature. A big part of that is hands-on experience, so the concept of being an engineer and being a theoretical engineer is kind of like an oxymoron to them.

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Will AI Eliminate Sales – or Save It?

Miller Heiman Group

The four founders of Spyce were mechanical engineering students at MIT when they set out to solve a problem: there were too few options for fast, healthy, inexpensive meals. “Too many cooks in the kitchen” is a well-known idiom, but “zero cooks in the kitchen” is an apt description of Spyce, a new restaurant in Boston.

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Will AI Eliminate Sales – or Save It?

Miller Heiman Group

The four founders of Spyce were mechanical engineering students at MIT when they set out to solve a problem: there were too few options for fast, healthy, inexpensive meals. “Too many cooks in the kitchen” is a well-known idiom, but “zero cooks in the kitchen” is an apt description of Spyce, a new restaurant in Boston.

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What Do Reductionism And Machine Design Have To Do With Selling And Buying?

Partners in Excellence

We create “functional units” in our businesses, sales, marketing, product management, customer service, and so on. Any fourth year mechanical engineering student doing gear design problems knows several things—1: There’s friction between components–that friction creates energy loss.

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Why and how you should rethink profile merging

Martech

Sometimes I need accounts on the same service for different clients on different email addresses. Some services won’t allow a customer to have multiple accounts with the same phone number for two-factor authentication. So I must find a workaround that doesn’t help the service provider or me. In this case, job title.

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

Heinz Marketing

We buy Volvo because they own the attributes of safety in our minds, we buy BMW because they own the attributes of an ultimate driving machine, or I fly Virgin Atlantic because they own the attributes of superior customer service in my mind. You studied mechanical engineering in college.

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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. Each gap in alignment (described by Stephen in a diagram) raises specific issues and requires us to take different steps to close it.