N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

After hundreds of interviews with fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) professionals, N2Growth identified the following trends: Consumers seek moments of happiness to escape reality and relieve the stress of the pandemic and the Ukrainian invasion. How common is it for CPGs to hire for key positions outside the industry? Agility is key.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Prep for anything that may stress you out your first morning. Meet the bureaucracy. If there’s not a lot to do while your workload is ramping up, spend time reading everything useful you can get your hands on: old documents, marketing and business plans, competitive analysis, the organization’s full website.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Today, most people work in some sort of bureaucracy — and according to Gallup, 85% of employees around the world feel disengaged from their work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

They are tasked with brokering an exit from the EU at the same time that the British economy is showing signs of stress. So one might assume that going into the Brexit talks, billed as “the most important negotiations in the country’s history” , the UK is negotiating from a fractured position. Bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

This quote is only one of the candid and deeply felt points relayed by the entrepreneurs interviewed for this piece on the anxiety, depression, and stress that often go hand-in-hand with building a start-up (95% of which don''t meet their projections). Freeman, might actually be a positive trait for leaders to have. It Can Be Done!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In the first two months, she single-handedly organized a large conference – marketing and organizing all the details of the conference and filling it to capacity. Her burnout symptoms had resulted from the long-term stress and the depletion of her resources over time. It was a remarkable feat. employees report feeling unengaged.

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