Unfolding Leadership

On Insecurity

A fair number of my clients — managers and executives — at some point in our work together express insecurity. This takes many different forms, from wondering about their value as leaders to worrying they are imposters to a clear avoidance of tough topics or evident conflicts in their relationships. It comes through as a […]

October 8, 2019 – 5:58 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Fate and Destiny, Power | Comments (0) and Social Share

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) and Social Share

What If

What if at the center of the labyrinth you found only a little boy, frightened, frail as a moth’s wing? How could such a creature survive the world’s crude play, the knife in the eye of the stranger? No one knows how hard the casing of a seed or the true meaning of of a […]

July 1, 2019 – 12:58 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Leadership Poems, Reflections and Poems, Transformation | Comments (2) and Social Share

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 […]