by Artie Isaac | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Perhaps this is a “Re-Welcome.” If you are a longtime reader of Net Cotton Content, welcome anew. You are receiving this message because I relaunched my website (my entire online presence) on a new online platform during May 2017. The relaunch results in...
by Artie Isaac | Oct 6, 2018 | Coaching Topics, Leading Peer Groups, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Creativity
Here’s an annual message in a bottle: it’s time to set goals for next year! I’m not the goal-setting type. I prefer to wing it. That’s my strength. When it comes to setting goals, I’m a wingnut. Goals seem too limiting. Or too ambitious....
by Artie Isaac | Aug 24, 2018 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
Early in marriage, Alisa asked me, “How do you determine what you say? Is everything that comes to mind uttered? Is every thought spoken? What is withheld?” To be sure, throughout our marriage, Alisa speaks more substantively. I speak more plentifully. For...
by Artie Isaac | Aug 22, 2018 | Leading Peer Groups
When someone struggles, it’s gracious to offer a helping hand. Except all the time, too early, or for the wrong reason. During a videoconference of Vistage Chairs this morning, one of the Chairs was wrestling with a question. The question required consideration....
by Artie Isaac | Aug 17, 2018 | Coaching Topics, New Competence
Early this morning, a few Chairs (of Vistage groups) gathered for cross-training. We call it “Chairs On Zoom Getting Coffee.” During today’s Zoom videoconference, this sudden awareness. Four Sounds There are four sounds during a peer group meeting: The voice of one of...
by Artie Isaac | Aug 6, 2018 | Coaching Topics, It happened, New Competence
About 15 years ago, Bill Oesterle called me. Founder of Angie’s List, Bill is a role model. At the time of that telephone call, Bill was a silent partner in my advertising agency, the late Young Isaac. Bill had long watched me fail to grow the value of the...
by Artie Isaac | Jul 1, 2018 | Coaching Topics, New Competence
Several months ago, John Broons joined me for breakfast. We were at ChairWorld — the happiest place on Earth, the annual gathering of Vistage Chairs. I saw John sitting nearby for breakfast and, in the spirit of an international conference, we glanced at the other...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
We Are All Liars Today You asked me if I’m telling the truth. We only just met. Why would I lie to you? I lie to my beloved, Lest she see me as weak. I lie to my children, Lest they see me as unwise. I lie to my friends, Lest they see me as uncaring. I lie to my...
by Artie Isaac | May 30, 2018 | Coaching Topics, New Competence, On Ethics
True to our consumer culture, we believe that the customer is always right. Everything starts and ends with the customer, we believe. Follow the cash, from consumer to investor. If we are cash operations, then the customer is always right. But if we are value-creation...
by Artie Isaac | Apr 27, 2018 | Coaching Topics, New Competence
When I recently wrote about Company A / Company B — a how-to, which you can find here — I promised to offer a couple tales about how it worked for others. (If you are not on Net Cotton Content, you can find the original post...
by Artie Isaac | Apr 12, 2018 | Coaching Topics, New Competence, Uncategorized
April Fools Day was the 10th anniversary of the end of my so-called career in marketing and advertising. But this isn’t about that. This is about what I was doing when I was pretending to run the advertising agency — and since. For a couple decades...
