Category Archives: Love

On Organizational Anger

There is a form of orga­ni­za­tion­al anger that all lead­ers need to under­stand. It is not the hos­tile out­burst of an aggriev­ed staff mem­ber, though this may be a symp­tom just as a shoot­er in a pub­lic place can be a symp­tom of a broad­er social despair. It is not the same as deal­ing with […]

March 30, 2021 – 3:07 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Conflict, Love, Self-Knowledge, Trust | Comments (0)

A Few Grains of Sand

It is often said that as lead­ers we ought to devote our­selves to some­thing larg­er than our indi­vid­ual inter­ests or pas­sions, some­thing larg­er than our­selves. This would seem to cre­ate a near spir­i­tu­al dimen­sion to lead­ing, some­thing that keeps us teth­ered to a strong sense of ser­vice to the world as well as a sense […]

February 8, 2021 – 1:03 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Healing, Love | Comments (4)

The Darkness Is Not Yet Complete

I am dis­ap­point­ed in our coun­try. Focused on win­ning, it is in fact filled with the defeat of our democ­ra­cy. I admit, because it often just seems so hope­less attempt­ing to cross the divide, I find myself resist­ing polit­i­cal argu­ments and exchanges. George Lakof­f’s descrip­tion of the con­ser­v­a­tive moral hier­ar­chy is enough of an explanation […]

October 16, 2018 – 12:55 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Changing the World, Grief, Love, Power, Transformation | Comments (2)

The Tender Spot

I am design­ing a new lead­er­ship work­shop and recent­ly I asked a friend and col­league for some feed­back about the design. As we reviewed the mate­ri­als and exer­cis­es, he stopped at one point and said, “I think you are going too fast here. What you are ask­ing peo­ple to share about them­selves in this part […]

September 17, 2018 – 12:28 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Healing, Listening, Love, Openness, Power, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (0)