by Artie Isaac | Aug 20, 2017 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Creativity
Hello, friends. Perhaps you met Srikumar Rao during his visits to Columbus during the past couple years. Perhaps you have heard about his teaching at top business schools around the world. Professor Rao has been the central influence — through encouragement and...
by Artie Isaac | Jul 24, 2017 | Coaching Topics, On Creativity
What is your favorite advertisement? I fell in love with “Brown’s Job” the first time I read it. I read it 100 times during my advertising career to renew my inspiration for the work. I taught it to students of advertising to inspire them. It makes a...
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 | Apr 12, 2016 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Creativity
People ask me if I like my work. They think I'm having fun. So here's what I think of "work." Work has a bad rap.Perhaps most people experience work negatively. I think that 99% of the people I know would rather be off work than at work. And they...
by Artie Isaac | Feb 21, 2016 | Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Creativity
I'm a writer, not an author. This thought came to me on a recent trip through California. I was enjoying being 55 years old — for a month longer, or so — and thinking what I often thought whenever my age ends in a "5" or...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 3, 2016 | On Creativity
I'm delighted to be returning to The Ohio State University to co-teach a class on Personal Creativity & Innovation. My co-teacher is Ida Abdalkhani, who is the primary mover behind re-establishing this class at Fisher College of Business. Yay,...
