After a long-time 15 years on-the-job as the city's appointed (not elected) Chief Executive Officer it should be clear by now what Brady's strategies really are. 
Yesterday's study session is a prime example, as presiding officer Hizzoner John Giles opens the session saying that there's been a lot of public comments and that he sees there are a number of presentations all ready. With noting that, and asking if any council district representatives want to remove other items from the Consent Agenda for March 18th - no requests - he hands the study session over to "Mr. Brady."
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Interesting article from 2016:
Do you suck out all oxygen out of the room, as a leader?
K V Rao, Singapore 7th Nov 2016
With all forms of uiquitous gadgets, iPhones, iPods personal computing devices that accompany leaders right through from boardrooms to toilets, from bed to constant and continuous distraction is the order of the day – and once you enter a meeting room its time to “suck up all the oxygen”!
Its good time to pause and reflect,
Learn the new P & L technique.
More ‘Sucking out oxygen out of a room,’[1] the expression vividly sums up how leaders dominate communication.
The importance of communication is over emphasized in management, however the perils of overdosed communication is understated and much worse, least understood. This has given to the rise of a new breed of leaders, who are exceptionally gifted – articulate, loquacious and irretrievably in love with their own voices. ! Leaders who end up talking too much, leave little oxygen for others.
Even in Q&A, interactive sessions, I have seen leaders who do it all by themselves, prod the questions, help re-articulate them, and then provide exceptionally long answers. There is no more oxygen left in the room! The audience is a transfixed fixture, meant to applaud periodically out of politeness.
Such sound-box leaders are fairly consistent i.e. they do the same in internal meetings as well as external meetings, with colleagues, employees, partners, and et all. Once they establish themselves, others realize quickly there is little oxygen left for them and remain quiet and often encourage the leaders to indulge in themselves.
The corporate world is the best place for leaders to dig their own graves, for there are piles of grave digging helpers always ready and over enthusiastic to assist you.
The moot point in here, it not to deflect from the need to be articulate and communicate well, but making communication a seriously effective bridge. I have seen exceptional leaders in my career and life who were the most effective communicators
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