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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. Have Proper Risk Management Plans. It is correct to say that strategic plans often come with enormous risks.

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How To Assess Your Organization's Risk

Eric Jacobson

Clark and Jorge Pedraza, in their book, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan (third edition), recommend you do your assessment using the 5Cs : Customers : First line, customer chain, end users, influencers Collaborators : Suppliers, allies, government/community leaders Capabilities : Human, operational, financial, technical, key assets Competitors (..)

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How To Access Your Organization's Risks

Eric Jacobson

Clark and Jorge Pedraza, in their book, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan (third edition), recommend you do your assessment using the 5Cs : Customers : First line, customer chain, end users, influencers Collaborators : Suppliers, allies, government/community leaders Capabilities : Human, operational, financial, technical, key assets Competitors (..)

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A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks

Harvard Business Review

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. You might say CARVER is a SWOT analysis on steroids.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting People

Harvard Business Review

Collectively known as "operational risks", these latter costs are substantial yet, if managed properly, could significantly, reduce the bottom line with few negative side effects. For example, estimates by Mercer and others indicate that losses just for the major risks (e.g., employee accidents, office theft, etc.)

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

Every CEO should be cultivating these behaviors to maximize innovative thinking: The most innovative leaders: Manage Risk. Innovative leaders scored 25% higher than their non-innovative counterparts on managing risk. The data suggests that the most innovative CEOs don’t ignore risks – they manage them.