This is strictly my opinion and anectdotal, but in my experience working in an office in Metro Detroit is like taking a time machine back to the 1970's. The corporate culture here is stagnant, old-fashioned, backward-thinking, in large part. Very top down, with the bigshots calling all the wrong shots. I know there are innovative examples [[like Quicken) but I think the good-old-boys mentality of the auto industry spilled over into other industries.