by Artie Isaac | Jan 5, 2016 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
This is a message for those of us who do not like setting goals. I am like you. Perhaps you ignored my recent post on the topic at http://goo.gl/FHE44f. Perhaps you read it and did nothing about it. It was nothing more than Goals Porno. (Ew.) For...
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,...
by Artie Isaac | Dec 29, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Creativity, Unsolicited Suggestions
Here's an annual message in a bottle: it's time to set goals for next year! Don't like goals? I hear that from several smart folks every year. "I don't like setting goals." "Too much blame and shame." "Not ambitious...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 29, 2015 | It happened, Living an engaged life
Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman 1899-1981 Roger Tory Peterson — to the land and sky what Jacques Cousteau was below the sea — taught that one need...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 2, 2015 | Living an engaged life, On Creativity
As I began at Yale, Bart Giamatti began his term as Yale's president. Long afterwards, as the seventh Commissioner of Baseball, he became nationally famous for banning Pete Rose. I wrote a letter to the Times, applauding Bart's ethical...
