by Artie Isaac | May 11, 2014 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Ethics
I've been downright lucky. Born into freedom. Into health. Into a loving home. Into prosperity. Into intellectual literacy and conversation. Into an ethical tradition. Into so much. These were gifts I didn't earn. They landed at my feet. All I had...
by Artie Isaac | Apr 29, 2014 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
Last evening at dinner, a colleague raised a question: "How can I become a better leader?" The answer, from another colleague: "Who are you? Start with knowing who you are." The table fell quiet. This quickly turned into an assignment for...
by Artie Isaac | Mar 27, 2014 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
A recent blog post — "The Alternative To A Rising Career" – received an unusually large reaction from readers of Net Cotton Content. The Reaction Split Evenly By Generation.The members of the Greatest/Silent Generation and Baby Boom...
by Artie Isaac | Mar 11, 2014 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
Many fine folks rise. Their career trajectory is upward. It can be graphed on an organizational chart. Mazel tov! Not me.Looking back on the first half of my career, that's not what has happened. Up never felt better. For me. So, every time I moved...
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 | 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...
