Unfolding Leadership

On Transience

Outside my office window the wind comes up in a tree that yesterday had been a single big red bonfire. Now, half the branches are bare, the leaves tossed around and away like bright embers. I’ve missed the photograph I had wanted to take of the full red tree. Meanwhile the lake across the street […]

October 17, 2019 – 12:50 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Grief | Comments (2) and Social Share

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 […]