adjective: indicating; a form of the word indicate
These symptoms are indicative of a larger problem.
This word is a very common pretentious word. It's really just the word indicate, but the accent is different so it sounds nothing like the word indicate. If you say it "in di kate ive" instead of the way it is normally pronounced, this will become clear.
Step 3 is preceded by Step 2.
When a pretentiously inclined person wants to say that x comes before y, but they also want to start the sentence with y, they use the following formula: y is preceded by x
noun:
1. an ideal, something to base everything else off of
2. a way of seeing the world
Our business will never be productive unless we undergo a paradigm shift.
"paradigm shift" is a common phrase that corporate people and motivational speakers use. It really works with either definition, but definition #2 was mostly created by Stephen Covey in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, a motivational book. Paradigm is one of his pet words.