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25 Need-To-Know Strategy Tools
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25 Need-To-Know Strategy Tools

by Vaughan Evans
November 2014
Beginner
224 pages
4h 14m
English
FT Publishing International
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The Suns & Clouds Chart (Evans)

This tool will help you:

  • Appreciate that ‘in these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain’ (Pliny the Elder, the Roman military strategist-cum-philosopher)
  • Assess the balance of risks and opportunities in your strategy from the dual perspectives of likelihood and impact
  • Amend your strategy as appropriate to ensure that the resultant opportunities surpass the risks involved

About this tool

‘When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other opportunity,’ said John F. Kennedy.

Risk and opportunity may indeed be two sides of the same coin. Both are displayed in the Suns & Clouds Chart.

I first created the chart in the early 1990s. ...

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