The Front Line Guide to Thinking Clearly

Making Decisions and Weighing Risk

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best shot. Success comes to the prepared, and even those with

well-developed thinking skills can find benefit in using a

facilitating structure such as force field analysis.

As important as succeeding is, it’s equally important that

you not fail. If you don’t have enough “stuff” to win in a

commercial or legal setting, force field analysis, competently

performed, will give you important decision-making infor-

mation.

SWOT Analysis

But force field analysis is not your only tool for risk analysis.

The SWOT analysis (compiling facts on the organization’s

strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats ...