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Podcast: Iowa Manufacturing Podcast
Episode: 35 Year John Deere Leader Shares Path to Chief Product Officer and Beyond
Description: A fascinating conversation about Tony's journey in manufacturing, starting as a coop student in Deere's Waterlooworks, to management, sales and marketing and finally leadership in their precision ag facility, developing technology for autonomous ag equipment.  Precision ag gets to the millimeter detection of weeds to spray ONLY the weeds.  The saving on herbicide costs, environmental benefit and crop productivity has been  exponentially improved! He talks about innovation and how to fail well by improved communication with the customer.  Fail fast, but fail often. . . Putting those failures together in an elegant way is the trick.  How to get the f...