by Artie Isaac | Feb 21, 2016 | Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Creativity
I'm a writer, not an author. This thought came to me on a recent trip through California. I was enjoying being 55 years old — for a month longer, or so — and thinking what I often thought whenever my age ends in a "5" or...
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 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...
by Artie Isaac | Sep 8, 2015 | New Competence, On Creativity
Words have meaning. So I want to find the right word. My increasing halts in conversation (and here, invisibly to you, at the keyboard) — when I'm searching for the right word — do not (necessarily) represent the onset of senility. It's that I've come to...
by Artie Isaac | Apr 9, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, On Creativity, On Ethics
That ring on your finger — who will wear it after you die? When your great-great-grandchild (or -nephew, or -niece, or -friend) receives your cherished ring (or necklace, or candlestick), that child will surely ask: "Who was [your name]?" It might be...
