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Reasoning Styles And Organizational Success Creation
By Patricia Hayden | Published  03/5/2005 | Organization | Rating:
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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Implementation Process

To start you on your way with this pursuit, consider these methods as only two of the means with which you may evaluate your organization while staffing it, so that organizational reasoning style does not prevent financial and marketplace success:

 

Develop a rank order of up to five of your organization’s most successful and productive product lines, business units and/or administrative functions.  Then, utilize the information from the description table above to determine which reasoning style has been utilized and which reasoning style is most prevalent within those lines, units or functions.  It is very likely that the same reasoning style (deductive) will exist largely or exclusively in all of those cases.

 

During all interviews for hire or promotion, assess how quickly the candidate answers your questions.  The speed with which answers are provided and the likelihood that the individual is a deductive reasoner will be directly proportional.  Ensure that one of those questions is, “Tell me everything about the degree to which you focus on details”.  Judge the answer to that question based on very specific job requirements, with the understanding that all leadership and influencing positions have required deductive reasoning for decades.