Quicken Loan's Dan Gilbert, named
Crain's Newsmaker of the Year for 2006, spoke last week at an
Inforum
breakfast about Southeast Michigan's regional assets as well as its
liabilities. Assets: work ethic, entrepreneurship and its research
universities. Liabilities: brain drain, victim mentality and
bureaucracy resistant to change.
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Quicken has been successful because it has developed a corporate
culture and philosophy that it defines itself by, and the company makes
decisions based on its identity, Gilbert said. The region must develop
a stronger identity for itself in order to make decisions that can help
it move forward, he said.
“You’ve got to know who you are before you start talking about what it is you’re going to do,” Gilbert said.
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