N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. It causes conflict in couples who then need to battle it out over who does what at home and whose career takes precedence at work. It's a political, economic and social one.

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Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The global economy is broken. We can’t get jobs—much less careers. Globally, the unemployment rate is 4.5%, according to recent data from the World Economic Forum – but for workers under 24, it’s 12.5%. Consider the following: 1. Opportunities for young people in many nations are somewhere between LOL and nonexistent.

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Transportation Education Hedge Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

“Still No Progress After Years of No Progress,” reads Catalyst’s recently released 2013 census of women directors and executive officers in the Fortune 500. To increase the sample size for a country-focused analysis of New Zealand, we administered the survey to a second wave of New Zealand directors between December 2012 and March 2013.

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Diversity Survey Sample Analysis 10

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

When it comes to discussions on the various challenges leaders need to address in today’s fast-changing global economy, there’s one topic that merits a proper assessment as to whether or not it’s really an issue for today’s organizations.

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. In the 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey, of more than 33,000 people around the world, only 27% of leaders were seen as behaving in open and transparent ways. And many Fortune 500 companies will just go away.

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