Show Notes
Those little paint colour cards you flip through at the hardware store? There's a good chance they were made by one family right here in Winnipeg. The Duha Family. Rick's first job in the family business was screwing posts into paint fan decks. Now, a robot does it. Rick isn't buying robots to replace his team. He's buying them to replace the repetitive tasks. That's where people get AI wrong. It's not about replacing people — it's about making time for the tasks that keep getting pushed down your to-do list. At 16, Rick wanted out. The Duha Group, the family paint-chip business, seemed boring. When he came back, he realized he'd been looking at it all wrong. Today, Duha is the world's leading paint-chip manufacturer. In this episode of Careers Under Construction, Rick shares: How a Winnipeg garage became the world's leading paint-chip manufacturer Why paint companies can't make their own paint chips Why he left and what brought him back The mistake that taught him the most Duha's unique employee training system Why "Ready. Fire. Aim." became the company's mindset What it took to buy their biggest competitor Why he believes AI will create better quality jobs, not eliminate them
How did the son who couldn't wait to leave the family paint business become the 11th Duha to run it?
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