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Top Auto Groups Combine in Major Industry Merger

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The members of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and Global Automakers will join forces as the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. Previously, AAM members included the “big three” Detroit carmakers and several major foreign ones, and Global Automakers represented the U.S. operations of automakers based in other countries.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Belief Systems as Bridge-Builders.

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custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Belief Systems as Bridge-Builders, Not Barriers. Our life experiences inform and coalesce into the belief systems that guide our choices. mass transit, innovation, neighborhood development, budgeting, etc.)

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Why Cultural Fluency Leads To Stronger Teams

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By embracing the diversity of the modern workforce as an asset and improving cultural fluency, associations can build stronger, more innovative teams, says global leadership strategist Jane Hyun, opening ASAE’s Associations @ Work Conference on Monday. Moving to New York, she said, was a culture shock. “I

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Associations Mixed on Agency’s Driver Distraction Guidelines

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“These guidelines recognize that today’s drivers appreciate technology, while providing automakers with a way to balance the innovation consumers want with the safety we all need. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in a statement. Combined with good laws, good enforcement and good education, these guidelines can save lives.”

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Rethinking 80-20

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custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. What if the these percentages are not because of some predetermined tendency of the way individuals act, but is instead a logical result of the systems and processes we put into place? Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects.

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Why The Structure You're Staffing is Stifling Progress

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custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. If your mindset and systems are based on having long-term employees (i.e., 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. Monday, June 11, 2012.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: There Really Is a Simpler Way

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custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Here are a few of them: Living systems learn constantly. Living systems are self-organizing. Because we are living systems, most people are intelligent, creative, adaptive, and self-organizing. "We