BOOKS ON CAREERS usually contain some advice on strategic thinking. They suggest getting the big picture, sometimes by applying the tools and techniques of business planning. This can be done, for example, by conducting a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis of your career. Sometimes, the books describe using a political, economic, social and technological trends approach to deter?mine what is affecting you. While these are useful exercises, I've noticed lately that discussing threats is more emotion?ally charged than in past.
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