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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. When you tailor your product to its consumers, competition becomes irrelevant. The organization wanted to create a user-friendly certification process.

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Motor City, ASAE 2015 and a Remarkable Year at YM

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I am excited about making my way to Detroit, except for the 4:00 AM wakeup call to make my flight – reminds me too much of my days as a kid delivering newspapers. If you’re in Detroit for ASAE please take a minute and stop by the YM booth (#539) for a visit. A lot has happened at YM since we were in Nashville last year for ASAE.

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How a Nonprofit Turned a Product into a Platform

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But that was the case with Veronika Scott, the 24-year-old founder and CEO of Detroit-based The Empowerment Plan, who shared her path from student to leader at a Game Changer session at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Salt Lake City on Monday. Our product is good enough to stand out. It was about the emotional one.

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The Wooden Hanger Theory of Productivity and Satisfaction

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The Wooden Hanger Theory of Productivity and Satisfaction. $50 Designers also like to organize books on shelves by color which seems totally wrong to me, but I get their intention. Guess I need to shut up about that designer book organizing. Guess I need to shut up about that designer book organizing. Order begets order.

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Seen Elsewhere: Resources for Trend Scanning, Gaming, Productivity

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Seen Elsewhere: Resources for Trend Scanning, Gaming, Productivity. In this edition, explore tools for environmental scanning and trend watching, examples of game dynamics being applied by real-world companies and associations, and a handy tool for tracking and maintaining personal productivity. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference.

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Why Cultural Fluency Leads To Stronger Teams

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It is our job to figure out how do we leverage these differences in our organization,” said Hyun, who is also author of Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences. While diverse teams have the potential to leapfrog homogenous teams in terms of innovation and productivity, those teams must be managed properly for that to happen.

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Reinvent What You Do, Not Who You Are

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And now, Detroit. Our beloved Detroit is in danger of losing its soul. Am I against choosing talented people to lead our organizations? It's spreading to Indiana, Wisconsin and New York. This poison is infecting us too and I'm tired of being nice about it. Of course not.

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