by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Jun 1, 2022 | Leadership, Organization Development
A power that the best of leaders have is the power of conscious choice. All of us have the power of choice. It’s just that the best leaders multiply it by using it consciously. Most of us make the myriad choices of daily life automatically, though expedient and...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Apr 25, 2022 | Dragon Principles, Leadership
From our previous article, we know that we all make many choices automatically. They save us time and energy and we don’t even notice them as choices… even when they are not saving us time and energy, when our automatic choices are actually wasting time and energy....
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Jan 3, 2022 | Leadership
I was consulting with a significant part of a large aerospace company. I was interviewing a very senior vice president. He was complaining about how hard it had become holding on to top employees. Of particular concern to him was what he saw as the lack of loyalty of...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | May 25, 2021 | Leadership, Organization Development
You Don’t Have to 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...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | May 24, 2021 | Leadership, Organization Development
Creating change in human systems such as teams and organizations is a matter of developing a critical mass of support for the change goal. Of course, developing that critical mass may involve working through whatever resistances there are and resolving the conflicts...
by Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. | Nov 23, 2020 | Leadership, Organization Development
Changing an organization’s culture or the norms of a team is not something to take lightly. An organization’s culture is the pattern of how it routinely behaves much like the personality of a human being. The analogy is apt since an organization is a human...
