by Artie Isaac | Jan 11, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Creativity
1. "You are a mess. You are crying and loud about it. Go to your room and don't come back until you're happy." These were the words of my mother, an all-loving, somewhat imperfect parent, when I was five years old. (Somewhat imperfect: that's all...
by Artie Isaac | Nov 30, 2014 | Coaching Topics, On Creativity
I was in a peer group meeting recently where someone described a bad trend. His revenues were down. Way down. He was against the wall — and had to produce or perish. (I have his permission to post this.) He sought the input of the trusted advisors around the...
by Artie Isaac | Aug 7, 2014 | It happened, Living an engaged life, On Creativity
Perhaps you have simply forgotten. You might be too young to remember. Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope secretly stretched between the tops of the World Trade Towers on August 7, 1974. Forty years ago today, he was a "man on wire." Truth Or Fact?At...
by Artie Isaac | Mar 15, 2014 | Living an engaged life, On Creativity
My hands live in Columbus. My imagination lives in New York. My ambition lives in New Haven. My feet live in the Grand Canyon. My family lives in Abaco. My soul lives in the Negev. My heart is wherever my beloved sits. Crossing the Sea of Abaco, Bahamas (2012)...
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...
