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Brian Gagan

Brian is a Leadership Strategies, LLC partner and holds management and human resources degrees from the University of Maine and Syracuse University. He has lived throughout America and in Europe and his background includes large business unit management experience and more than twenty years in the human resources arena. He maintains an active role with several Board appointments and he has worked with companies in nearly all business sectors, large and small, domestic and international. He has held executive and officer positions with The Maine Medical Center, Burger King Corporation, The Pepsi-Cola Company, and Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation. Some of Brian’s primary areas of specialty are mergers and acquisitions, elimination of organized labor influences, organizational structuring, senior executive performance improvement, board functionality, international expansion, executive compensation and perquisite design having a direct effect on organizational financial performance improvement, and peaceful elimination of human capital performance roadblocks.

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Does your organization practice deductive or inductive reasoning? See our recent article entitled “Reasoning Styles And Organizational Success Creation.”

Those organizations that practice inductive reasoning tend to get caught up in the weeds or the details at the cost of forward productive action. These organizations become paralyzed in the details and spend valuable time making sure that every “i” is dotted and every “t” crossed. One way to determine if your organization falls into this category is to attend a meeting and look for the following signs:

· Does the meeting start on time or are individuals allowed to wander in throughout the meeting?

· Is there a published meeting agenda and is that agenda followed?

· Is there a definite starting and ending time for the meeting and is it adhered to?

· Does the meeting have a leader that keeps the group on task and moving forward?

· Are there required actions, individual assignments and formal follow-up as a result of the meeting?

If you can answer “no” to any of the above items, you may need to take a closer look at your organization and its ability to focus on the big picture issues rather than minute and ancillary details.

Allowing organizations to remain in the weeds can have tremendously negative consequences on its ability to compete in the marketplace in which it does business. Forward thinking and acting companies are the ones that are on the cutting edge due to their ability to cut through the details and focus on the key items at hand through the use of deductive reasoning.