Joe Fadool is the President and CEO of BorgWarner, a company with 38,000 people and products riding on some of the toughest trucks and SUVs in the world.

His path wasn't a straight line… Joe took a role too early in his career. He missed deadlines on a launch and was ultimately pulled from the job. In a later role, he was missing his son's birthdays for two years because of the travel.

He went to his boss and said he had to get off the road, but he was instead offered a turnaround: a billion dollar unionized manufacturing plant in Huntsville.

Joe calls it the best thing that ever happened to him - it got him home for dinner, and it was the operational experience that opened the door to BorgWarner.

In this episode of Talk Real Shift, we covered:

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