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CPG Hiring Trends

N2Growth Blog

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?

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The Burden Imposed By Enforcing Worker Rights

The Horizons Tracker

. “People have to deal with both the exhausting bureaucracy of the claims process, and the constant fear of employer retaliation and blacklisting.” ” The interviews conducted for the research revealed that attempting to fight workplace exploiting imposed a considerable amount of emotional and financial stress on people.

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Breaking the Fear Barrier

CEO Blog

It is a mature person who can sit back and formulate a plan for positively harnessing fear. For me, the first step would be to manage the stress that fear causes. According to Rieger fear stems from bureaucracy: Parochialism - The tendency to force others to view the world from only one view. In short, not being a team player.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

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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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. Such groups can also revitalize innovation and change. They also have a greater impact on organizational outcomes. This leads us to take the high ground.

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Would a Hard Brexit Cripple the EU’s Digital Economy?

Harvard Business Review

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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The Steep Psychological Price of Starting Your Own Company

Harvard Business Review

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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