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LinkedIn Quietly Experiments with Product Pages to Boost Conversations

LinkedIn is experimenting with ways that businesses on its platform can encourage open conversations around business-type products. The company is working with two early beta testers. The idea is to prompt engagement between members, as well as between members and product development teams at... Continue Reading

What’s Causing Volatility in the Markets?

Winter 2021-2022 Electricity and Natural Gas Forecast Market volatility is seemingly settling in for the long haul as volatile Henry Hub natural gas prices – and as a result electricity prices – continue to rise. While no one can predict where prices will go as we head into winter,... Continue Reading

Why Good Employees Quit

Turnover is inevitable. Every company in every industry will have to deal with turnover, and turnover isn’t necessarily a negative for the company. But too much turnover among top performers is always a negative. The goal for leaders is to attract and retain top performers—at least... Continue Reading

MTI Enhances 2022 Forecast Report

Year in and year out, most members share that the monthly sales reporting and the quarterly forecast reports are the 2 most valuable reports MTI provides to members. Making great decisions comes from having access to great data. MTI provides that data monthly and quarterly as a part of your... Continue Reading

MTI Graduates 22 Executives in YES Management Training Program

MTI is excited to announce it graduated 22 executives from the 2021 YES Management Training Program in San Antonio, TX during the Fall Meeting in October. The 2021 graduating class started out in 2020 as a team of 35. Through the challenges of COVID and having to move the class to 2021, the team... Continue Reading

OSHA Releases Long-Awaited Vaccination Rule: 3 Key Takeaways For Employers

On November 4, OSHA released its long-awaited emergency temporary standard (“ETS”) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to adopt, at a minimum, a vaccinate-or-test-and-mask program. Although the ETS is commonly framed as a vaccination mandate, employers may choose to... Continue Reading

Cring Ransomware Continues Assault on Industrial Organizations with Aging Applications, VPNs

A Sophos report attributed a recent Cring attack to hackers in Belarus and Ukraine. The Cring ransomware group continues to make a name for itself through attacks on aging ColdFusion servers and VPNs after emerging earlier this year. "In a previous incident, Cring operators exploited a... Continue Reading

MTI Launches New HR Training for Sexual Harassment & DEI

Over the past couple of years, states have begun to pass rules requiring businesses to have some level of training on sexual harassment and diversity/inclusion. In today’s business world, it is important for companies to have appropriate training on both to build a company culture that helps... Continue Reading

Monday Economic Report

Supply Chain Disruptions and the Delta Variant Slow GDP Growth The U.S. economy grew 2.0% at the annual rate in the third quarter, the slowest pace of growth since the pandemic began, down from 6.7% in the second quarter. The deceleration in economic growth... Continue Reading

Winning the Race with inflation: The Pricing Opportunity for Industrial Companies

Many industrial companies face a complex new array of challenges today, including a global pandemic that has driven radical shifts in demand, buying patterns, cost to serve, and perceived value across sectors and value chains, which in turn have led to sharp spikes in commodity prices. Inflation... Continue Reading

MTI Launches HeatTreatCareers.com

Without a doubt, the number one pain point of any business in any industry is lack of qualified people to work. Every industry is competing to grab the attention of anyone looking for a job. The challenge is that the labor participation rate is at a level not seen since 1975, at 61.5%. With the... Continue Reading

OSHA Sends Draft of Vaccine Mandate to White House

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Tuesday that it has sent a draft of its emergency temporary standard for mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations and testing to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. President Joe Biden on Sept. 9 called on OSHA to create such... Continue Reading