Reasoning Styles And Organizational Success Creation

Patricia Hayden

Patricia is the leader of our Global Leadership practice and earned her Master of Arts degree from UCLA in Latin American Studies and International Economics and received her Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University, where she graduated with honors from the School of Languages and Linguistics. She also studied International Affairs and European Studies at the University of Madrid, Spain. Patricia has twelve years experience providing global management consulting and cross-cultural coaching services to over forty-five companies in thirty countries around the world. She specializes in the languages and cultures of South America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and the Gulf States.

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One aspect of organizational culture and performance that is frequently overlooked, but nonetheless has a significant impact on company financial and market performance is that of Reasoning Style. The manner with which organizations reason through challenges and opportunities appears to be one of the three largest factors related to financial performance and business expansion. It is, in fact, rather easy to adjust organizational reasoning styles without regard to the size of the organization. The purpose of this article is to summarily demonstrate how to change the reasoning style of an organization in the event that you determine that the success of your organization is being limited by its cultural reasoning style.