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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.25.22

Reid All About it

LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report has good news for associations: the corporate C-suite finally understands the value of professional development. Because I used 3 pounds of boneless pork shoulder (aka Boston butt), I doubled the marinade/sauce ingredients—and added a hefty amount of spicy sambal oelek to the mix. 1 CAE credit.

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What’s the Business Case for Paid Family Leave?

Associations Now

A new Boston Consulting Group report makes the case that organizations that offer paid family leave see higher retention rates, better results from employee recruitment, and improved morale—especially since relatively few employers offer the benefit at this time. A few key points from the report: Creating good values.

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CompTIA Study Finds Tech Hubs Where You Wouldn’t Expect Them

Associations Now

The Tech Town Index, a new report from the association, finds a surprising geographic diversity among tech hot spots, helped along by both booming college towns and maturing local tech economies. Yes, you’re probably aware that San Francisco or Seattle are tech hotbeds, but what about Huntsville, Alabama, or Lansing, Michigan?

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UK Banking Groups Complete Long-in-Works Megamerger

Associations Now

banks could face in moving parts of their business to the European Union as a result of Brexit, according to a recent report from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, based on estimates from Boston Consulting Group. $ 17B The estimated costs that U.K.

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Massachusetts Tech Group: Women, Minorities Left Behind as Industry Grows

Associations Now

That’s according to new research from the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, a trade group focused on the state’s innovation economy. MassTLC reports that of the 17,000 new jobs created in the Massachusetts technology industry between 2007 and 2014, just 4,000 of them—24 percent—went to women.

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Associations at Odds Over Proposed Massachusetts Ban on Noncompete Clauses

Associations Now

The tech industry says a ban is needed to boost innovation, but business groups have a different take. LINX argued that it was trying to protect information on its unique training methods from competitors, the New York Times reported. Webb told The Boston Herald. This has increasingly become exploitative to workers.”.

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David Gammel's Web Strategy Report, Volume 2 Issue 2

High Context

Thoughts On Strategy: If you can’t innovate now… If you are unable to innovate your web presence now you never will. Innovators are inherently optimistic people, which will really make you stand out from the crowd these days! Innovation in laptop computers has traditional come from the high end of the market.