by Artie Isaac | Aug 8, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
I'm about halfway through Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business and enjoying it. In the first section of the book, Mr. Duhigg describes much of our individual behavior in the context of habits. In short,...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 28, 2015 | Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Ethics
Every once in a while, I publish a list of What I Don't Know. This perennial, shameless display of ignorance was inspired by Rob Emrich, my SpeakerSite co-founder and friend. He loved for us to keep a visible, up-to-date list of what we don't know. Rob knew...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 23, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
Matt Slaybaugh recently sent me these familiar words, from the commencement address to the graduates of Kenyon College in 2005. I've taken several minutes to digest them anew. I'd read them years ago, back when the speech first hit the Web. I've...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 21, 2015 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
[NOTE: This is written for Net Cotton Content by Helen Hazelwood Isaac.] When I was seven years old, the fathers of my classmates at Columbus School for Girls organized a retreat to a YMCA campsite. There were about twelve father-daughter pairs, and we all slept...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 4, 2015 | Coaching Topics, It happened, Living an engaged life, New Competence
There was a time when I was very resistant to changing my life. This is about that time. I owned a business. Called "Young Isaac" — after the founding partner, Brooks Young — it was an advertising agency where I sat all day, but I never did the...
