by artie | 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 | Mar 23, 2017 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
“This is going to be so long, I won’t be able to finish it in a day.” That’s what I told Matt Slaybaugh. Matt is my writing partner on occasional Sundays, often at the Roosevelt Coffeehouse. As I dove into this piece, I felt I needed to warn...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 28, 2017 | Coaching Topics, On Creativity, Unsolicited Suggestions
I always have two questions in my pocket: "How Do I…" — What don't you know? What are you trying to solve? What do you want to learn? "What's Next?" — What is the product or service that you plan to introduce during the coming...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 20, 2017 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
Greetings from Washington, D.C. Inauguration Day 2017 Each of us is surrounded. And we are surrounded by the people we choose to surround us. Recently, a Master Chair, David Belden invited me to speak to one of his Vistage groups. At the end of a wonderful morning...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 3, 2017 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
It depends on your perspective. It might depend on your expression of gender. Are you held down by a glass ceiling? You can see the leaders above you, but some invisible force keeps you from rising. Are you standing on a glass floor? You earn more for the...
by Artie Isaac | Dec 10, 2016 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
There is injustice. There is murder. There are leaders that ignorantly and intentionally incite the worst nature of others. It can be all so disheartening. And, after glimpses of progress — two steps forward — there is regression...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 12, 2016 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
This is a difficult post to write, because the readers of Net Cotton Content were quite divided over the recent election. People across the political spectrum feel labeled and dismissed. They are disgusted, as well as angry, sad, glad, afraid, and...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 9, 2016 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
"…you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." — Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1954) To all who are disappointed by the outcome of the election (no matter who you voted for), I am grievously disappointed. (To those of you who are glad...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
I am heartbroken to learn who among those I know have voted for Donald Trump. And I am sad to learn who among those I know aren't voting at all. What Do I Think?Since I turned 18 in 1978, I've always wished for better candidates. I've...
by Artie Isaac | Oct 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
[Longtime readers of Net Cotton Content will recall this seasonal post. With the end of another baseball season, "it must follow, as the night the day." Feel free to skip the next few paragraphs. But read, below, "The Green Fields of the...
