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Mission driven: CAI’s Tom Skiba reflects on 20 years of leadership

Ungrated

It was in this changing landscape that Tom Skiba, CAE, became CAI’s chief executive officer in 2002. While residents’ expectations continue to grow, pressure to keep costs down is increasing. What’s the biggest challenge community associations face today? This results in a fundamental disconnect between expectations and resources.

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Labor Tensions Cause Port Headaches for Retail, Manufacturing Industries

Associations Now

The projected cost, per day, of a 10-day port shutdown on the West Coast, according to an estimate supplied by global management consulting firm Kurt Salmon on behalf of the National Retail Federation and the National Association of Manufacturers. retail industry. In 2002, after a 10-day work stoppage at the ports, President George W.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

The drop in the cost and effort required to capture, edit, and deliver video has dramatically increased our ability to use it for developing educational content. For learning businesses, the rise of SaaS has meant better, lower-cost access to a wider variety of learning platform options. The E-learning Cost Cliff.

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Group Offers Benchmarking Benefits Through Tiered, Online Program

Associations Now

With a new online platform, the Truckload Carriers Association is introducing members to the benefits of benchmarking as a way to capture industry data and boost their profitability. In tier two, FastStart , members input a greater amount of information to receive more detailed, but still anonymous, industry data.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Making Sponsorship Special Again

Idea Architects

simply to support the industry or to have their name attached to an. reduced cost courtesy of others’ doing the underwriting. As a result, the registration fee or product cost individuals have been paying hasn’t had to carry the full value proposition of the event or product itself. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Mission, Vision, Values: Catalysts.

Idea Architects

In 2002, the American Society of Association Executives Foundation identified Meaning Matters as one of the seven emerging issues affecting associations. For their seminal work, Built to Last , authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras researched those visionary companies who had consistently been industry leaders for many decades.

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California Association Turns Farm Workers Into Farm Owners

Associations Now

Historically, field workers like Murillo have faced difficulty transitioning and prospering because of language and cultural barriers, the high cost of land, lack of resources, and institutional exclusion, ALBA says. Since 2002, 90 ALBA graduates have begun their own independent farms off-site and are doing well.