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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Take the most popular of them, the SWOT analysis, where you try to figure out the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats facing your business. SWOT doesn’t account for the dangerous judgment errors revealed by recent research in behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience, what scholars call cognitive biases.

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I Dare You to Do Better.

Rich Gee Group

Action Item: Conduct a personal SWOT analysis to identify your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Action Item: Set a stretch goal that feels slightly out of reach and develop a step-by-step plan to achieve it. In our careers, the fear of failure can be a significant barrier.

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SWOT analysis – What careers coaches won’t tell you

Rapid BI

The SWOT analysis can be a great career planning and development tool, but not in the way that many career coaches and educational tutors suggest. Since 2006 when I first started writing about the use of SWOT analysis, I have seen very little change in the way that SWOT is explained.

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You Won’t Improve if You Don’t Focus

Lead Change Blog

This quote comes to mind whenever I think of my personal and professional improvement over the lifespan of my career. Self-Assessment through SWOT Analysis. I always remind myself that the butterfly was once in a cocoon, trying to rip the cocoon open to early will not help accelerate the development of the butterfly.

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Great Business Lessons From The Movies – The Godfather.

Rich Gee Group

Develop SWOT analyses on each one to position your business in the best possible light. What are your favorite lines from The Godfather and how have they impacted your career? P.S. Which quote resonated clearly with your career? Who’s your competition? Where are they strong? Where are they weak? Let’s talk.

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Hidden Strengths – Unleashing The Leadership Skills You Already Have

QAspire

Tools like SWOT analysis also focus excessively on two things: strengths and weaknesses. The book points to research which states that, “Effective leaders evolve and grow throughout their careers, whereas failed leaders get stuck in a pattern of overusing their strength to the point of staleness.”.

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Is Wrong!

CO2

Recruiters are going to be pounding the phones and selling the virtue of working for the company that developed Marissa Mayer (and her stellar career) rather than working for a second-rate, also-ran that lost its luster years ago. All things being equal, would you rather work for Google or Yahoo? The Prediction.

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