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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 ...

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The results of a strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats analysis are most often displayed within a four-corner, or horizontal, matrix design. The internal-external matrix is based an an ...

External environment of an organization includes a variety of factors, whose existence, influence its behavior and performance. The action of these factors may be direct (for example, the actions of ...

China’s widening trade surplus and the growing US trade deficit since the pandemic have renewed concerns about global imbalances and fueled an intense debate on their causes and consequences. There ...