by Artie Isaac | Mar 1, 2014 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
Who is your best collaborator? When has collaboration worked well for you? And when has it failed? I Know Failure.Failure in collaboration comes in two flavors. One: bad collaboration. Two: no collaboration. The second is harder to taste. It's not as...
by Artie Isaac | Feb 16, 2014 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
Per Jewish tradition, the eleven months of mourning for my mother have now ended. I've said Kaddish — and will continue to do so on each anniversary of her death. I am very grateful to those who stood beside me and encouraged my remembrance. Thank you. How...
by Artie Isaac | Feb 3, 2014 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
Since 2008, when I experienced the singular moment of middle age, I have been striking up conversations with strangers. (I told that story here.) During the past five or so years, I have met a wide variety of interesting people. It seems it is always when I’m...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 24, 2014 | Living an engaged life, On Creativity
We have so much information and so little understanding. The sciences have brought us tremendous discovery. Our former ignorance of new facts is humbling. Lacking our new facts, our ancestors seem quaint. And scrappy. What pluck! How did they find their way through...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 15, 2014 | Living an engaged life, On Creativity
It's been five years since I sold my business and retreated to the home office. Nearly six. Five years is a long time. After a child is born — even after, say, just a few weeks — you can hardly remember life before the child. The kid-free life...
by Artie Isaac | Dec 22, 2013 | It happened, Living an engaged life, New Competence
A few days ago, Mark Wallinger praised what he called my "body of work." Mark has a way with words. Sparse. Inspires pause. His "body of work" praised and aged me. He thinks I'm old enough to have a body of work. (I could argue. I think...
