by Artie Isaac | Sep 13, 2015 | Coaching Topics
This is about a shirt. (If you were ever to skip one of my posts, this is the one.) Click on the photo to see the shirt, on the Castle Trail at Badlands, South Dakota. (If you don't see a photo, visit Net Cotton Content here: tinyurl.com/GoodShirtMan.) There...
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 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 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...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 2, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
I was frenetically bored. My friend and teacher, Steve Anderson, helped me realize this. He said: "You bounce out of bed at five every morning without an alarm clock. You run around all day, doing all kinds of honorable, effective things. You...
by Artie Isaac | May 31, 2015 | Coaching Topics, New Competence
It’s been about four years since I started training as (and being) a Vistage chair. I don’t write much about it here. The conversations — among CEOs, business owners, key executives — are confidential, so there isn’t much to...
