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

This guy's socks were very cool. If you can say that socks make the man then perhaps this is it. Superman that is! No spe...

Ok, this gives me tremendous technology hope for the future.  This 4-year old kid is working diligently on her smartphone, while he...

So I've seen it both ways... There are those who "lead" by friendship , as if the workplace is one big playpen; and the no...

Top 100 Social CIOs from Huffington Post . So cool to make the list. ;-) Shabbat Shalom!

New Article by Andy Blumenthal here in Public CIO Magazine.  "It's not what we say, it's what we do that really matters....

Technology is not like buying a time share, thank G-d.  We examine the costs and the benefits, and it either works and provides us a tan...

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

According to the  Wall Street Journal , workers "value kindness in their boss" and compassion--this is natural, as we are all hu...

Funny..."Load Your Preferences." ;-) (Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

Fascinating video with Dan Tentler on the Shodan Search Engine...which CNN calls the "scariest search engine on the Internet." ...

In IT circles, IV&V generally refers to Independent Verification and Validation, but for CIOs another important definition for leading...

How About Google Fiber for Washington, D.C.?  - Lead, by example, the rest of the nation forward. - Speed up the functioning of ...

We've all drunk the Kool-Aid and believe in using the cloud. And with almost 1 million active apps alone in the Apple Store it is n...

I remember a joke the guys use to tell back in college...about how you can't have you Kate and Edith too. Cake and eat it too...get ...

InformationWeek  asks "Will IT Departments Disappear By 2020?" This question comes from Forrester Research which sees the comm...

New article here by Andy Blumenthal in Public CIO Magazine called "Using Enterprise and Personal Architecture To Chart Your Cours...

I have a new article in Public CIO Magazine about working to perfect ourselves in an imperfect world. Please read the article here  onli...

There were three news articles in Federal Times this week (17 December 2012) that highlighted some disappointments for the tim...

In Public CIO Magazine (12 December 2012) Andy Blumenthal talks about lessons learned as an IT leader. You've got to serve the m...

Talking with my daugter today, I learned that times have changed for our children and I realized for us as well. It used to be that ki...