The Winnipeg Factory Behind Every Paint Chip You've Held

<p>Those little paint colour cards you flip through at the hardware store? There&#39;s a good chance they were made by one family right here in Winnipeg. The Duha Family.</p><p>Rick&#39;s first job in the family business was screwing posts into paint fan decks.</p><p>Now, a robot does it.</p><p>Rick isn&#39;t buying robots to replace his team. He&#39;s buying them to replace the repetitive tasks.</p><p>That&#39;s where people get AI wrong. It&#39;s not about replacing people — it&#39;s about making time for the tasks that keep getting pushed down your to-do list.</p><p>At 16, Rick wanted out. The Duha Group, the family paint-chip business, seemed boring. When he came back, he realized he&#39;d been looking at it all wrong. Today, Duha is the world&#39;s leading paint-chip manufacturer.</p><p>In this episode of Careers Under Construction, Rick shares:</p><ul><li>How a Winnipeg garage became the world&#39;s leading paint-chip manufacturer</li><li>Why paint companies can&#39;t make their own paint chips</li><li>Why he left and what brought him back</li><li>The mistake that taught him the most</li><li>Duha&#39;s unique employee training system</li><li>Why &quot;Ready. Fire. Aim.&quot; became the company&#39;s mindset</li><li>What it took to buy their biggest competitor</li><li>Why he believes AI will create better quality jobs, not eliminate them</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>How did the son who couldn&#39;t wait to leave the family paint business become the 11th Duha to run it?</em></p>