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 | 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. | Jul 28, 2023 | Leadership
So many leaders today bemoan the difficulty of finding and keeping good people. Those same leaders rarely consider doing something about their leadership style as a remedy. It’s time for them to revisit servant leadership. Servant leadership, a concept first...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Jul 24, 2023 | Leadership
I’m often asked to work with smart but underperforming executives, whose justification is that taking certain actions would be uncomfortable. They also cite that they don’t want to cause anyone else discomfort (which they find discomforting). Leadership is...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Jul 7, 2023 | Leadership
Human beings have two opposing and powerful pulls: to be part of and to be apart from. When we are ‘part of,’ we belong. We want to belong to groups of others that accept us, appreciate us, and support us. In fact, we only survive and thrive in communities with...
