Businesses analyze SWOT -- strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats -- for strategic planning. Performing a SWOT analysis of your own business helps you better understand your business and ...

Experienced small business owners learn to come to terms with an uncomfortable truth: of all the documents they must prepare before launching their business, most get filed away – never to be seen ...

For those of us who never went to business school but found our way into entrepreneurship, it takes practical experience to determine which tools best serve us in the real world. After 10 years of ...

The SWOT Analysis framework measures your company’s competitive advantages and disadvantages and plans for improvements and seizing favorable opportunities for your business. In marketing, the SWOT ...

Short for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, the SWOT analysis can provide a powerful framework for personal growth and, more specifically, leadership development. The Fast Company ...

Here’s some concrete advice on how to sidestep these pitfalls and make your strategy session more inspiring. Start by flipping the sequence of your SWOT agenda by placing the analysis of external ...

After you’ve defined your career aspirations and goals (see my previous blog on how to do this), the next step is to understand more about yourself and your external environment. This is where the ...