Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

I liked this saying from someone in the IDF.  Be "flexible in tactics, but stay fixed on the goals!" There are many ways to ...

People are creatures of habit.  They form routines and function with relative comfort and efficiency within that.  And for the most pa...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has come up with a Reconfigurable Wheel Track (RWT).  The tires can switc...

I thought this saying from a colleague was really astute. "Everybody hates the status quo   but nobody wants to change." H...

Often, we have a one size fits all orientation to life.  "To a hammer, everything looks like a nail." We try to solve fresh ...

I wanted to share some good tidbits about effective management, collaboration, and engagement that I heard this week at a Partnership fo...

So are we born to lead or are we forged to greatness through adversity and lots of hard work? Some people definitely seem to have innate...

So there was an office discussion the other day about something having a "checkered past." And one of my colleagues said wisel...

So, having grown up in New York, I've definitely heard of a drive by shooting, but never a "drive by meeting".  Until a co...

I love this African proverb that I heard recently: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together....

Christopher Mims in the Wall Street Journal  makes the case for letting employees go rogue with IT purchases. It's cheaper, it...

Nobody likes to get or feel rejected--whether asking someone on a date, applying for a job, coming up with a new idea...you don't wa...

The Times, They Are a-Changin' is a song by Bob Dylan (1964), it is also the reality of our times today, and how we react to all the...

This is a terrific performance by Laserman. He seems to break all the laws of physics and manipulates laser light beams as if it is both a v...

Fast Company (December 2008) describes Frenemies as a " thrilling intricate dance" of friend-enemy relationships . Half a year la...

On November 4-5 2009, I attended a good CSC Leading Edge Forum on Cloud Computing. The kickoff by W. Brain Arthur was a highlight for me (h...

There are scarce dollars for investment purposes and many competing alternatives to invest in. Therefore, organizations must make wise inves...

I have always been fascinated by leadership and how to grow an organization in spite of a broad variety of obstacles to change and maturity....