Swot Quotes

That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger,” said Snape coolly. “Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.

So don’t study and swot too much, for that makes one sterile. Enjoy yourself too much rather than too little, and don’t take art or love too seriously- there is very little one can do about it

I’m a swot,” said James. “I read books all the time and I do not know how to talk to people. If I was a girl living in olden times, people would call me a bluestocking. I wish I could talk to people like you do. I wish I could smile at people and make them like me. I wish I could tell a story and have everybody listen, and have people follow me around wherever I went. Well, no, I don’t, because I am slightly terrified by people, but I wish I could do all that you can do, just the same.

When I was thirteen I spent a lot of time pretending to like dance music because everyone at my school seemed to love it. If only I'd known it was OK to have different tastes to others and that one day my mind would be blown open by an older man who would introduce me to The Smiths, The Cure, Buzzcocks, Talking Heads and almost every other band I adore to this day. I also wish I'd been reassured that one day, yes, a boy would actually fancy me in spite and potentially, deliberately, FOR my zero boob/skinny legs combo. But mainly I wish I'd listened to my mother when she said learning to play the piano might come in handy in the future and would actually be something I would thank her for forcing me to do. Every Wednesday we would drive to Mrs Batten's house listening to The ArchersI, with me in the passenger seat trying desperately to think up excuses for why I hadn't practiced that week. Though it seemed very unlikely at the time, I am thankful for those piano lessons every time I manage to impress a boy by hammering out some Chopin when drunk (swot up, kids!).

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it. I thought I would spend the summer reading "Finnegan's Wake" and writing my thesis. Then I would be way ahead when college started at the end of September, and able to enjoy my last year instead of swotting away with no make up and stringy hair, on a diet of Benzedrine, the way most of the seniors taking honors did, until they finished their thesis. Then I thought I might put off college for a year and apprentice myself to a pottery maker. Or work my way to Germany and be a waitress, until I was bilingual. Then plan after plan started leaping through my head, like a family of scatty rabbits. I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles, threaded together by the wires. I counted one, two, three.... nineteen telephone poles dangled in space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

SWOT is cool, but strategic thinkers know that there is a point which:⁣⁣ - Strengths become weaknesses - Weaknesses become strengths⁣⁣⁣⁣ - Opportunities become threats⁣⁣ - Threats become opportunities ⁣⁣ Strategic entrepreneurs and leaders find the greatest insights hiding behind SWOT. ⁣⁣

As he had done in his swot spot in boxing, Hymie made us think and behave like winners. ‘Winners make their own luck but winners are also lucky,’ he said.

A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't afraid of sin. On the contrary, she can look it in the face calmly and even take it upon herself, assume it at times, as Our Lord did. When a good workman's been at it for a whole week, surely he's due for a booze on Saturday night. Look: I'll define you a Christian people by the opposite. The opposite of a Christian people is a people grown sad and old. You'll be saying that isn't a very theological definition. I agree... Why does our earliest childhood always seem so soft and full of light? A kid's got plenty of troubles, like everybody else, and he's really so very helpless, quite unarmed against pain and illness. Childhood and old age should be the two greatest trials of mankind. But that very sense of powerlessness is the mainspring of a child's joy. He just leaves it all to his mother, you see. Present, past, future -- his whole life is caught up in one look, and that look is a smile. Well, lad, if only they'd let us have our way, the Church might have given men that supreme comfort. Of course they'd each have their own worries to grapple with, just the same. Hunger, thirst, poverty, jealousy -- we'd never be able to pocket the devil once and for all, you may be sure. But man would have known he was the son of God; and therein lies your miracle. He'd have lived, he'd have died with that idea in his noddle -- and not just a notion picked up in books either -- oh, no! Because we'd have made that idea the basis of everything: habits and customs, relaxation and pleasure, down to the very simplest needs. That wouldn't have stopped the labourer ploughing, or the scientist swotting at his logarithms, or even the engineer making his playthings for grown-up people. What we would have got rid of, what we would have torn from the very heart of Adam, is that sense of his own loneliness... God has entrusted the Church to keep [the soul of childhood] alive, to safeguard our candour and freshness... Joy is the gift of the Church, whatever joy is possible for this sad world to share... What would it profit you even to create life itself, when you have lost all sense of what life really is?

The Only good thing about skool are the boys who are noble brave fearless etc. although you have various swots, bullies, cissies, milksops greedy guts and oiks with whom I am forced to mingle hem-hem. in fact any skool is a bit of a shambles.

In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip creosote into their Roederer when getting drunk... I have even had the awkward androgynes, the unsexed dishes of the day of the *tables d'hote* of Montmartre. Like any vulgar follower of fashion, like any member of the herd, I have made love to bony and improbably slender little girls, frightened and macabre, spiced with carbolic and peppered with chlorotic make-up. Like an imbecile, I have believed in the mouths of prey and sacrificial victims. Like a simpleton, I have believed in the large lewd eyes of a ragged heap of sickly little creatures: alcoholic and cynical shop girls and whores. The profundity of their eyes and the mystery of their mouths... the jewellers of some and the manicurists of others furnish them with *eaux de toilette*, with soaps and rouges. And Fanny the etheromaniac, rising every morning for a measured dose of cola and coca, does not put ether only on her handkerchief. It is all fakery and self-advertisement - *truquage and battage*, as their vile argot has it. Their phosphorescent rottenness, their emaciated fervour, their Lesbian blight, their shop-sign vices set up to arouse their clients, to excite the perversity of young and old men alike in the sickness of perverse tastes! All of it can sparkle and catch fire only at the hour when the gas is lit in the corridors of the music-halls and the crude nickel-plated decor of the bars. Beneath the cerise three-ply collars of the night-prowlers, as beneath the bulging silks of the cyclist, the whole seductive display of passionate pallor, of knowing depravity, of exhausted and sensual anaemia - all the charm of spicy flowers celebrated in the writings of Paul Bourget and Maurice Barres - is nothing but a role carefully learned and rehearsed a hundred times over. It is a chapter of the MANCHON DE FRANCINE read over and over again, swotted up and acted out by ingenious barnstormers, fully conscious of the squalid salacity of the male of the species, and knowledgeable in the means of starting up the broken-down engines of their customers. To think that I also have loved these maleficent and sick little beasts, these fake Primaveras, these discounted Jocondes, the whole hundred-franc stock-in-trade of Leonardos and Botticellis from the workshops of painters and the drinking-dens of aesthetes, these flowers mounted on a brass thread in Montparnasse and Levallois-Perret! And the odious and tiresome travesty - the corsetted torso slapped on top of heron's legs, painful to behold, the ugly features primed by boulevard boxes, the fake Dresden of Nina Grandiere retouched from a medicine bottle, complaining and spectral at the same time - of Mademoiselle Guilbert and her long black gloves!... Have I now had enough of the horror of this nightmare! How have I been able to tolerate it for so long? The fact is that I was then ignorant even of the nature of my sickness. It was latent in me, like a fire smouldering beneath the ashes. I have cherished it since... perhaps since early childhood, for it must always have been in me, although I did not know it!

Come on, baby,” Jake says climbing out of the car. By the time I’m out of the car, the star-struck young guy is taking the car keys from Jake and is walking around to the driver’s side with a huge smile on his face. “You didn’t just give the car to a random stranger did you?” I ask, smirking. “No,” he chuckles, gently swotting my behind with his hand. “He works for the place we’re going to. He’s going to go park the car for us … he’ll probably joy ride it first – can't say I blame him because I would if I was him – but as long as it’s back for when we need it, I’m cool.” “Aww, you’re so sweet, baby, letting the teenager go for a joyride in the hire car.” I nudge him with my hip.

Then I would be way ahead when college started at the end of September, and able to enjoy my last year instead of swotting away with no makeup and stringy hair, on a diet of coffee and Benzedrine, the way most of the seniors taking honors did, until they finished their thesis.

A SWOT analysis involves asking, "What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?

How a SWOT Impacts the Plan Is the SWOT just an intellectual exercise, or is the information used during other parts of the planning activity? As you can see in the diagram that follows, the SWOT does frequently come into play during the planning activity. Strengths and opportunities often become strategies. Weaknesses and threats often show up as barriers.

SWOT analysis looks at an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

The SWOT component of strategic planning is the first point where strategy and risk management intersect. The product of the ERM process (the identified risks and mitigation plans) can inform the strategic planners—and vice versa. 

I pleaded, like a naughty schoolgirl persuading the class swots to bunk off for the afternoon.

When there is a world recession, at some stage the world or major countries will come out of it, and people will spend money again. How can you use your time now to develop something which will be needed when the recession ends?

As for the smells I associate with her, I was a bit of a swot too, so I love all the stationery aromas: the woody/metallic aroma of pencil shavings, the flat winey smell of ink, the sticky sweetness of a leaking biro and- my favorite- the almost talcum-powder softness of a new exercise book. For her veggie diet there is the powerful grassiness of leafy vegetables, the caramel of sweet potatoes, carrots and beetroots roasting, and the sulfurous note of brassicas. The nutty starchiness of brown rice and other whole grains. The green tang of fresh herbs, warm ginger. The bite of garlic and the spiciness of coriander seeds, cardamom, turmeric and chili. White flowers for her youthful freshness and lemon for her mental sharpness. So my scents for a daughter are: Gold Heart v. 4 by Map of the Heart Botanical Essence No. 20 Rose by Liz Earle (it has a carrot seed note in it) Wild Green by Bronley White Musk by The Body Shop Neroli by Annick Goutal Cristalle by Chanel

She was immovable and denied, in teh face of the week's passing, that a two-and-a-half-day job had become a seven-day obsession. She was the grotesque adult embodiment of that properly despised schoolboy creature of fretful, incontinent ambition, a swot.

PLANEJAR, é possível usar o Canvas do Modelo de Negócio, o Canvas da Proposta de Valor, o Balance Scored Card (BSC), o brainstorming, a jornada do usuário. Para FAZER e AGIR, você pode usar desde um cronograma, ou uma matriz de responsabilidades, matriz Swot (ou, em português, Fofa – forças, oportunidades, fraquezas e ameaças), ou mesmo uma checklist para plano de ação. Outra ferramenta visual muito útil é o diagrama de Hishikawa, no qual se identificam as possíveis causas de um problema que precisa ser resolvido. Cada ferramenta tem um propósito, e muitas delas podem ser usadas de diferentes maneiras. O mais importante sobre gestão à vista é começar a praticar. Comece compartilhando os dados que já estão organizados. E não pare mais, pois as informações precisam sempre ser atualizadas, checadas, analisadas, redefinidas. Defina os dados mais adequados a serem medidos de acordo com o grau de maturidade da empresa: • Número de clientes ativos. • Faturamento previsto x faturamento realizado. • Propostas na rua e pipeline de vendas. • Número de ligações ou visitas realizadas por dia; taxa de sucesso das visitas. • Acompanhamento do fluxo de caixa. • Grau de satisfação de clientes. • Lucratividade. • Receitas x despesas. Lembre-se de que, além do momento empresarial, cada tipo e segmento de negócio tem seus indicadores mais relevantes. E, talvez o mais importante: gestão à vista facilita gerenciamento e estimula colaboração. Formas de financiamento / entrada de capital Existem várias alternativas de financiamento para viabilizar uma empresa, em suas diversas fases – criação, crescimento, expansão, nacionalização, internacionalização.

SWT Instead For senior leaders, we propose replacing the SWOT with the SWT: an updated approach that identifies inherent Strengths and Weaknesses within their firms while exploring broader external Trends beyond their own industry or geography.

So, Rosalind became a symbol, first of an argumentative swot, then of a downtrodden woman scientist, and finally of a triumphant heroine in a man's world. She was none of these things and would have hated all of them. She was simply a very good scientist with an ambition, as she told Colin from her hospital bed, to be a Fellow of the Royal Society before she was 40. But she died at thirty-seven.

Don’t be. It’s not your fault that you tilt my equilibrium off its axis. Every day, I try to figure out how I’m going to handle it. I’m not like you. I like spreadsheets and SWOT analyses. Every day, I fight my instincts.

Prat," she whispers against his lips. "Swot." "Ferret." "Know-it-all." "Mine.

Swotting and cramming requires a lot of energy for a relatively minor result. In contrast, rather than leaving you feeling exhausted, learning via action, physical work or applied problem-solving is inspiring and fulfilling.

What the Swots had studied deeply was the art of forbidding things, and in a very short time they had forbidden painting, sculpture, music, theatre, film, journalism, hashish, voting, elections, individualism, disagreement, pleasure, happiness, pool tables, clean-shaven chins (on men), women’s faces, women’s bodies, women’s education, women’s sports, women’s rights. They would have liked to have forbidden women altogether but even they could see that that was not entirely feasible, so they contented themselves with making women’s lives as unpleasant as possible.

potasser /pɔtase/ I. vtr to mug up (familier) (GB), to bone up on (familier) (US) [dossier, manuel]; to swot up (familier) (GB), to bone up on (familier) (US) [matière, histoire] II. vi to swot (familier) (GB), to bone up (familier) (US)

The correct approach is to start with the environment and then analyze the organization. The first step is to assess the organization’s external environment, looking for emerging threats and potential opportunities. Naturally this assessment must be conducted by people who are grounded in the reality of the organization and knowledgeable about its environment. Having identified potential threats and opportunities, the group should next evaluate them with reference to organizational capabilities. Does the organization have weaknesses that make it particularly vulnerable to specific threats? Does the organization have strengths that would permit it to pursue specific opportunities? The final step is to translate these assessments into a set of strategic priorities, blunting critical threats and pursuing high-potential opportunities. These are then the inputs to a more extensive strategic planning process. The confusion that has flowed from naming the method SWOT is so pervasive that a name change is probably in order. The alternative? Call it TOWS, so that people get the right cues about the best order for conducting the process.

Man would have known he was the son of God; and therein lies your miracle. And not just a notion picked up in books. Because we'd have made that idea the basis of everything: habits, customs, relaxation, pleasure, down to the simplest needs. That wouldn't have stopped the labourer ploughing, or the scientist swotting at his algorithms... what we would have torn from the very heart of Adam is the sense of his own loneliness.

John Kay apuntó en un artículo muy escéptico que «probablemente el sentido más habitual en el que se emplea la palabra “estrategia” hoy en día es como sinónimo de “caro”».[19] La proliferación de estrategias se había desarrollado de un modo vertical, en forma de actividades subsidiarias de distintos niveles, y de modo horizontal, en una serie de prescripciones tanto procedimentales como teóricas para mantener la relación con el contexto. Los ochenta y los noventa trajeron una deslumbrante secuencia de grandes ideas, la aparición de gurús como Peters y Hamel, y el advenimiento y caída de la BPR. Como resultado, se abrió un nuevo campo de investigación en torno a la proliferación de modas y tendencias de administración de empresas. Su abundancia y variedad, la publicidad que las rodeaba y su escasa vida propiciaban cierto asombro: ¿por qué se lo estaban tomando con tanta dedicación?[20] Al consumidor de teorías de administración de empresas no se le planteaba un paradigma dominante, sino más bien una cacofonía incoherente, pistas de claves únicas para el éxito a las que se podía acceder comprando tal o cual libro, asistiendo a un seminario o —lo mejor de todo— firmando un contrato de consultoría. Las ideas se propagaban rápidamente, amontonándose unas sobre otras, lo banal con lo complejo, las perspectivas auténticas con las proposiciones improbables, y mezclando análisis con generalizaciones dudosas. Había varias razones que explicaban este fenómeno. Los gurús ayudaban a los directivos a dar sentido a un mundo incierto y proporcionaban un cierto grado de predictibilidad. También ofrecían una autoridad externa que contribuía a legitimizar lo que los ejecutivos estaban llevando a cabo. Incluso los escépticos se ponían nerviosos, por si se estaban perdiendo algo importante, o por si se daba a entender que estaban ignorando fenómenos importantes. La sucesión de modas y tendencias debería haber sugerido que el resultado podría ser cínico o incluso aleatorio, pero siempre había la posibilidad de un verdadero avance, como si una sección más elevada de los ejecutivos estuviera realmente al mando. Si era así, el directivo consciente al menos debería prestar atención.[21] Tampoco era exacto que todas las ideas fueran inútiles.[22] Desde que Drucker introdujo por primera vez la gestión por objetivos, se habían introducido ciertas técnicas que pudieron considerarse en un momento dado como una moda, pero que ahora se consideraban generalmente muy útiles, tales como el análisis SWOT, la matriz Boston o los «círculos de calidad». En el caso de la BPR el problema estaba en el excesivo radicalismo, que exigía demasiado a la vez y exageraba los beneficios. Después de los años ochenta, era rara la compañía que no decía aspirar a la excelencia y la calidad, al tiempo que pretendía animar la iniciativa local.

FDOA («Fortalezas y Debilidades de una organización a la luz de las Oportunidades y Amenazas en el entorno»; en inglés, SWOT «Strengths and Weaknesses of organization in the light of the Opportunities and Threats in the enviroment»).

Para Porter la estrategia consistía en el posicionamiento. El menú de estrategias era pequeño y la elección de las mismas dependería de la naturaleza del contexto competitivo, porque el objetivo sería encontrar una posición que pudiera defenderse contra los competidores y aquellos que pretendieran entrar en el mercado. Porter ponía sobre la mesa tres estrategias generales: intentar mantener el liderazgo del mercado manteniendo los costes bajos, conseguir un producto que fuera lo suficientemente distinto para que no entrara en conflicto con el de otros competidores (diferenciación) e identificar un sector concreto del mercado en el que hubiera pocos competidores (especialización). Decía que era importante escoger una de esas estrategias y ceñirse a ella, y nunca «quedarse en el medio», porque eso era casi siempre garantía de escasos beneficios. Dado que la mejor posición siempre daría amplios beneficios, en todo momento habría recursos para seguir mejorando esa posición. La clave era encontrar y explotar las imperfecciones del mercado. En términos del marco SWOT, se trataba de identificar las oportunidades y las amenazas más que las fortalezas y las debilidades. En esta teoría había muy poco interés en la organización interna y en la implementación real de una estrategia.