by Artie Isaac | Jan 21, 2021 | Coaching Topics, Leading Peer Groups, Living an engaged life, On Ethics, Unsolicited Suggestions
Years ago, a teacher of mine, Ed Burghard — the very first time we met — told me about his Handshake Document. “When I shake your hand,” Ed said, “I automatically make these promises.” He handed me a sheet of paper. The paper described...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 18, 2020 | On Ethics, Poetry
For years, I have taught workshops on writing ethical wills. I have drafted my own, but never felt finished. With this poem, I feel complete. This poem is my ethical will. A Jewish tradition, ethical wills pass ethical values to the next generation. In recent years,...
by Artie Isaac | Feb 10, 2020 | Coaching Topics, Leading Peer Groups, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Ethics
Years ago, a teacher of mine, Ed Burghard — the very first time we met — told me about his Handshake Document. “When I shake your hand,” Ed said, “I automatically make these promises.” He handed me a sheet of paper. The paper described the...
by Artie Isaac | May 30, 2018 | Coaching Topics, New Competence, On Ethics
True to our consumer culture, we believe that the customer is always right. Everything starts and ends with the customer, we believe. Follow the cash, from consumer to investor. If we are cash operations, then the customer is always right. But if we are value-creation...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 20, 2017 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
Greetings from Washington, D.C. Inauguration Day 2017 Each of us is surrounded. And we are surrounded by the people we choose to surround us. Recently, a Master Chair, David Belden invited me to speak to one of his Vistage groups. At the end of a wonderful morning...
by Artie Isaac | Jan 3, 2017 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
It depends on your perspective. It might depend on your expression of gender. Are you held down by a glass ceiling? You can see the leaders above you, but some invisible force keeps you from rising. Are you standing on a glass floor? You earn more for the...
