by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Nov 14, 2023 | Leadership
Conflict is behind every dysfunction in our teams, organizations, and other human systems. Conflict that is openly hostile or a passive aggressive power struggle. Conflict over some difference. We turn differences into dysfunctional conflict whenever being right, or...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Sep 26, 2023 | Leadership
Many leaders have the notion that it is lonely at the top. Like so many things, if you believe it, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The fact is no one has ever accomplished anything of any significance alone. Think about that. I think about my first successful,...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Sep 26, 2023 | Organization Development
Data gathering is not seen as glamorous part of organization development. Many practitioners think of it as the precursor to the exciting things that practitioners do that really make a difference. Some consider it optional and could be skipped. They are mistaken....
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Sep 26, 2023 | Leadership
The leader of a portion of a major museum complex in Washington, D.C. desperately wanted to be a better leader, but his behavior consistently defaulted toward wanting to be liked. The leader of a major television station in the same city spent much of his time...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Aug 13, 2023 | Organization Development
The best organization development practitioners are possibilists. “I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist,” wrote Max Lerner, summing up how he saw himself. We believe in the infinite possibilities that working with human systems can...
