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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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» An Experiential Perspective On Business Ethics In The United States
By Brian Gagan | Published 01/4/2005 | Organization | Rating:

With globalization of world economies, business practices throughout the world are becoming more uniform.  Business ethics, however, are globalizing at a much slower pace.  The recent events related to Enron, WorldCom, K-Mart, Tyco, Global Crossing, Cutter and Buck, ImClone and other U.S. organizations have replayed memories from the 1970’s and 1980’s such as Bank of Boston, Ivan Boesky, Charles Keating, Guinness, Robert Maxwell, Toshiba and Deutshe Bank.  This we know:  near term, it is very likely that another U.S. technology company and another U.S. retailer will collapse as the result of the ethical misguidance of their executives and boards of directors.
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» Ensuring That Your Reward And Performance Management Systems Do Not Create Compensatory Damages
By Brian Gagan | Published 02/2/2005 | Organization | Rating:

A universal and expensive challenge for each and every business around the globe is that of compensating employees for their efforts. This challenge is more complex in the United States than in most other countries due to the convergence of federal, state and local laws and because of the presence of many pay methods within U.S. business.

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» Executive Hiring…Improving Their Return On Your Investment
By Brian Gagan | Published 03/15/2005 | Organization | Rating:

During the last eighteen months executive turnover has become higher than it ever has been in history, throughout nearly all developed nations. According to our contacts in the U.S. and international executive search communities approximately 50% of that activity has resulted from voluntary executive departures, approximately 30% of that activity has resulted from involuntary executive departures, and approximately 20% of that activity has resulted from newly established executive positions.

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» Five Simple Solutions To Achieve Immediate Results!
By Brian Gagan | Published 05/16/2005 | Organization | Rating:

The following five solutions are based upon our experience and observations of American business and some of the recent trends that have been emerging.  These solutions can be implemented within any organization, large or small, within any industry and are not dependent on or affected by organizational structure.

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» A Perfect Unionization Storm In 2009?
By Brian Gagan | Published 10/28/2008 | Organization | Unrated
Without regard to political preferences, if candidate Obama becomes President Obama while Democrat majorities occur in both the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate, the Employee Free Choice Act will be enacted into law during the first four months of 2009. 
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