by Artie Isaac | Oct 6, 2007 | On Ethics
C’mon, you two.Back to work.Years ago, Alisa and I went to the movies in New York City. It was late afternoon in a nearly deserted cinema in Greenwich Village. The feature film was Women in Love. This post has almost nothing to do with that. This post is about...
by Artie Isaac | Oct 4, 2007 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
So much advertising is made with a single-minded, self-serving brutality. The advertiser cares only for sales — at any cost. Is there a social cost that makes some advertising unworthy? In Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters, a favorite book,...
by Artie Isaac | Sep 27, 2007 | On Ethics
I’ve heard it said that any business — no matter how highly performing, no matter how dominant — is only three bad decisions away from going bankrupt. We’ve all seen it. Enron comes to mind. Of course, it was probably 3,000 bad decisions, but...
by Artie Isaac | Sep 19, 2007 | On Ethics
It was such a treat for me to face the highly intelligent and engaged students of Columbus Alternative High School’s International Baccalaureate program. These are Columbus Public School students who were truly ready to wrestle with the college level, ethical...
