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When did you last “retro” your retrospective?
By Adam Cuppy Retrospectives are one of the many powerful tools to review and improve your team’s approach to solving problems. For many project teams, they do a retrospective at the end of every 1–2 weeks. If you’re already in the habit of running a retro every week or two…
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Flying Lessons: How stories from Aviation can make us better Managers – Final installment
By Jim Myers In this, the final installment of our six part series, we look at how we as managers can incorporate change into our organizations to take advantage of the lessons learned so far. The picture of Boeing’s iconic 737 airliner represents a culmination…
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Seasonal Losses in Local Government Education Reduce Total Employment
By Guy Tauer, Regional Economist Guy.R.Tauer@oregon.gov Total payroll employment fell by 1,930 jobs in July, mostly due to a typical seasonal loss of 2,040 jobs in local government education. Employment changes in most other published industries were modest. Professional and business services added 80 jobs in July. The goods-producing industries…
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Marketing without measurement in a world of malignant complexity
The economists are confused! By Mark Schaefer While reporting on the robust economy in America, The New York Times noted that the current combination of low unemployment and low inflation seems impossible. Economists believed you could never have a low unemployment rate (3.7 percent) without also seeing the rate of…
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Everything you think you know about gentrification is wrong
By Joe Cortright Facts are stubborn things: And they don’t support the folk wisdom equating gentrification with displacement. There’s a palpable and growing amount of cognitive dissonance between the accepted conventional wisdom about the intrinsically evil nature of gentrification, and a body of careful detailed research that shows that its…
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Core Values Define Your Brand
Inspire, drive, and define your brand by Vonnie Mikkelsen While a clearly articulated Strategic Plan aligned with our organization’s Mission and Vision are key to stewarding the resources of our members and delivering on expectations of our community partners, our Values are our true north reminder of who we are,…
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Refuge and Prospect: The Front Porch
Yesterday and today, we are celebrating the past, present and future of the surprisingly powerful front porch. by Beth Ann Fennelly My approaching birthday has me taking stock, as approaching birthdays do. This year isn’t a milestone — I’m merely being ushered into my (write it!) late 40s. But I’m…
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The Oregon Connections Telecommunications Conference is coming to Ashland – Oct. 24-25
The Oregon Connections Telecommunications Conference draws attendees from all regions of the state to share ideas, experiences and knowledge about broadband telecommunications. In its twenty-fourth year, the conference will be exploring Smart Communities: strategies, applications, enabling technologies and Oregon initiatives. Oregon Connections is a grass roots conference first held in Bend and hosted…
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Meet Mark and Maddy DiRienzo
Self Storage and Commercial Real Estate Developers & Operators and Good People. By Jim Teece I have admired Mark and Maddy for years. They are good people that have developed commercial spaces for small business owners to thrive. They are also caring community leaders and a successful husband and…
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Meet Bend Artist Megan Myers
by Jim Teece I had a chance to interview Bend Artist Megan Myers. Megan’s art is all over Bend and on the products that are made there. She has been featured in other publications around the state but they focused on her art and I wanted to focus on her…
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Meet Laz Ayala & KDA Homes
By Cynthia Scherr Laz Ayala carried the American Dream inside him when he crossed the U.S. border in the trunk of a Cadillac as a 14-year-old. Now Laz, with partners Mark Knox and David DeCarlow, are making the American Dream of owning a home accessible to Southern Oregonians. Southern…
Read MoreOregon Tech Adds Data Science Degree, Opening Up Pathway to the “Best Job in America”
August 29, 2019, KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Starting next year,Oregon Institute of Technology, “Oregon Tech,” will launch a bachelor’s degree in Data Science, a program created to answer the quickly growing need for analysts of “big data,” and the first undergraduate program of its kind at a public university in Oregon. First…
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