Category Archives: Trust

Awkward Leadership

Among the many emo­tions asso­ci­at­ed with lead­ing oth­ers, one is hard­ly men­tioned: awk­ward­ness. And yet, time and again, the places where things can change are in the awk­ward moments, made up of social dis­com­fort, impre­cise words and ten­sions that we hope some­times too des­per­ate­ly are on their way to being over­come.  We can think of […]

November 10, 2019 – 10:50 am | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Trust | Comments (6)

On Not Wanting to Know

I attend­ed a con­fer­ence late­ly on open sci­ence where one of the speak­ers dis­cussed how we can now cre­ate detailed human genet­ic pro­files. For exam­ple, it is pos­si­ble to give a preg­nant woman or a new mom knowl­edge of all the dis­eases to which her baby might be sus­cep­ti­ble. But, it turns out, there’s a […]

August 9, 2019 – 5:40 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Self-Knowledge, Trust | Comments (4)

Leadership and Beauty

A recent New York Times arti­cle, “How Beau­ty is Mak­ing Sci­en­tists Rethink Evo­lu­tion,” caught my eye and ear. Fer­ris Jabr’s lucid prose verges at the end of the arti­cle to poet­ry and is framed through­out with exquis­ite images of bird feath­ers by Ken­ji Aoki. The con­tent of the arti­cle is about evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gy and scientific […]

May 7, 2019 – 1:37 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Listening, Self-Knowledge, Trust | Comments (0)

The Point of Feedback is Understanding

It seems obvi­ous does­n’t it — the rea­son we take the time to have tough con­ver­sa­tions with one anoth­er is to cre­ate bet­ter under­stand­ing. With that new under­stand­ing in place the oth­er per­son can then choose to grow into bet­ter ways of mov­ing in the world. He or she may choose, for exam­ple, to become […]

January 21, 2019 – 3:51 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Reflective Leadership, Self-Knowledge, Trust | Comments (0)