Sam DeWitt got told like every millennial to go to college and get a degree.

The path from there to becoming a master mechanic wasn't anything he could have planned, moving through different roles and companies before landing somewhere that changed his entire perspective on what leadership could be.

His supervisor Bob showed him what servant leadership actually looks like creating space for people to grow by recognizing where they need help and empowering them to learn instead of expecting them to already know everything.

We explore how admitting what you don't know opens the door to real learning, why seeking knowledge directly from people doing the work beats any manual, and how hands-on practice with real failure scenarios builds the next generation of skilled technicians.

Highlights

1. Why companies banking on operators training replacements fails when the operator is protecting their own job instead of teaching.
2. How servant leadership that recognizes strengths and weaknesses across teams while empowering people to struggle and learn changes careers.
3. Why maintenance requires some innate ability beyond what's teachable and finding people who want to work on broke stuff every day is hard.
4. Why creating the right training tools can work better than prescribed ones.

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