We explored the S.W.O.T. analysis earlier. It is difficult to identify all the threats before your engagement. You can expect unidentified or newly introduced threats during the engagement. When your executive team discovers a possible threat, pull the team together to determine how each department head should pro-act toward it.

Executives make mistakes of course, and sometimes they make several in succession. While those mistakes can cost the company money, lost market share or some other missed opportunity and of course embarrassment to the one who made the error this is not usually the most memorable, or hurtful outcomes of a mistake. Consider those time when you or colleague made a public mistake or failed, either for wrong action or inaction in some way that affected the organization. What was that most difficult issue to bear? Their failure to live up to the obligation to others and filed to meet the expectations of subordinates and peer executives. We should also mention the despair of not performing for their boss.