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No One Can Think Outside the Box

Harvard Business Review

A cautious or suspicious few ask due-diligence questions. You can get an extra kick out of SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportu­nities, and threats) analysis. Resist the urge to converge. I’ve used the financial-history exercise in my corporate workshops on strategic thinking and in my classroom.

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Bullying Is a Confidence Game

Harvard Business Review

Even if we haven't confided in a bully, they have intuitively, if not explicitly conducted a SWOT analysis. Before you bring someone into your inner circle, do your due diligence. it's hard to resist. Perhaps we've shared our aspirations with the Wizard, as did the Cowardly Lion, Tin Man, Scarecrow and Dorothy.