The Art of Constant Change: Jim Glidewell CDT

Episode 141 · December 7th, 2020 · 1 hr 6 mins

About this Episode

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This podcast is all about featuring people from and associated with our industry. But it's not very often that we get to talk with someone that 100% of the people in dentistry have heard of. Jim Glidwell from Glidewell Laboratories, comes on the podcast to talk about how he accidently and without a plan grew to be one of the largest and most successful dental laboratories in the world with multiple locations worldwide. Jim is a technician at heart that explains that you have to "constantly mess up" to deal with the "Constant Change". From his kitchen table to 5,000+ employees, there is sure to be something learned from him. Jim talks about the importance of advertising, popularizing monolithic zirconia, how COVID affected him personally and the lab, and his new book coming out December 8th "Constant Change"

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