Mike Baer, President of Trench-Ade, joins host Tim Leman to discuss the importance of relationships - with customers, employees, mentors, and personally. He talks about building an organization that has a strong sense of integrity. Mike also shares about his own leadership journey and his vision for the future, both personally and professionally.

 

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Key Takeaways:

• Building businesses on customer service (1:50)
• Harboring the right type of culture and leadership development (2:30)
• Building & measuring customer relationships (4:00)
• Being a sales organization (7:00)
• Servant leadership (8:20)
• Mike's leadership journey (9:20)
• Amazing mentors to pave the path (11:35)
• Importance of relationships & tips for being a good mentee (12:50)
• Mentorship experiences influencing shifts in thinking (17:00)
• Looking ahead and making goals (22:00)
• A business as a bus (24:00)
• Family goals - focus on growing great human beings (25:10)
• What drives Mike's charitable involvement (26:00)
• Painting the vision of business partners (33:25)
• Mike's secret sauce (36:20)