Nairobi, June 21 -- Getting the job done. Spotting the right talent. Spurring the shareholders. There are things that one knows in leadership-who knows how?-like a shadow passing through your cells. Fatherhood resists all this. You make it up as you go. You submit yourself to it, bend the knee, and kiss the ring.

That's what the BDLife discovered after ringing up a few executives seeking to find out what frightened them most about fatherhood, about being fathers.

Because, unlike running a company, where if you stick to the equations, that a-often-leads-to-b, fatherhood demands you rip the how-to guide, submerge yourself in the water, and find out how much of an amphibian you could be. "Despite my success as a parent," one executive refl...