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8 Ways You Can Improve Your Strategy & Leadership Skills to Scale Your Business

Joseph Lalonde

SWOT analysis: this business analysis tool helps you to discover your business’ strengths, shortcomings, opportunities you can use, and circumstances that may pose threats to your business. If you want to upscale your business with a cooperative effort from your team or employees, you must communicate as effectively as possible.

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8 Guidelines for Leadership Coaching and Team Building Activities

Mike Cardus

The effort is finding exceptions to the problem and determining how the team and person cooperate best. Then changing my interaction with them to cooperate in the best way to achieve shared goals. NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. This effort does not have to be me telling them what to do or them telling me what is wrong.

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How to Find New Competitive Knowledge in Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Once the sense-making began, intelligence experts used standard, outdated methods such as SWOT analyses and created lengthy internal reports. Analysts typically spent 80% of their time gathering information before they even began trying to make sense of it. Not a very fast process, and the results were rarely compelling for senior executives.

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