Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Change is hard, but often necessary. As they say, "adapt or die."  Of course, you can change when you stop: Procrastinating Being ...

Excellent poem by Dorothy Nolte: What children experience at home is what they learn to become.  Sure people can change their thinking and a...

One administration comes and another goes.  The new executive orders and legislations reverse the old ones.  - Keystone Pipeline - Travel Ba...

Shabbat Shalom from Ms. Cat.  It only takes a day to change from a dog to cat.  Downs and ups of life.  Shabbat is the up, thank G...

So everyone knows what happens to the nail that stands out... It gets hammered down! Deviation from the norm or the groupthink is met ...

Thought this was a pretty cool clock.  Instead of just giving you the time (h ere it is 20:52 or 8:52 pm), t he numbers are made up of 3...

So as we age, we've got to cope with a different reality. Our bodies and minds may start to deteriorate.  We can't do all the ...

So it's a funny thing about decisions... Decisions are supposed to represent the conclusion of a process involving the following ste...

I heard a great presentation on change management. Some highlights I really liked: - U.S. Army War College in developing high performa...

This afternoon, we attended the interfaith movie screening of “ The Judge. ” The movie is about a Palestinian woman who becomes “the f...

So this donut-shaped art at the Outlets in Clarksburg is metallic and reflective.  But what is really interesting to me is that when you...

Managing IT projects is no easy task. You've got to get the requirements right.  Technical issues need to be resolved.  Dependen...

Planning is a critical aspect of making progress toward your goals. As they say; If you fail to plan, plan to fail.  However, planni...

Thought this was an interesting analogy.  A colleague refers to some customers as snowflakes. At first, I didn't get it.  Then I...

So when the train is pulling out it's a loud call by the conductor of: "All Aboard that's going abroard." With proje...

So a colleague has this sticker (with a do not image) on their computer that says: "But we've always done it that way." ...

I liked this guidance from Dr. Britt Andreata on addressing conflict through managing difficult conversations Here's how the typical ...

So I learned this cool acronym for the roles of a project manager: DIRECT The project manager directs the project (similar to a direct...

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

Sometimes things happen that we don't agree with or like.  We may even get blamed for them when we didn't do anything wrong.  ...