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

So there are some mighty impressive places to work that really shine in terms of the technology they use and the constant desire to upgrad...

So I am working on myself to improve and be a better person. Recently, I had a number of experiences with people telling me of some very...

So I'm not so sure what is so funny about a left-handed screwdriver... Except of course that there is no such thing! The same scre...

This was the first time that I have ever seen an inspector in Starbucks... See the lady in the white lab coat with hair cap and gloves.....

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 here are three simple questions to ask your boss that can help you get valuable performance feedback and advance yourself and your ca...

I thought this was a good photo to depict the importance of keeping perspective in life. It is easy for any of us to "get bent out o...

So there is big backlash against employee performance reviews.  Bloomberg BusinessWeek declares the annual performance review to be &qu...

Really liked this performance measurement and transparency at Home Depot. Here are their store performance measures prominently displaye...

Healthcare.gov was rolled out on October 1.  Since then there has been lots of bashing of the site and finger-pointing between govern...

Saturday Night Live had a funny skit last week about people in the future looking back at us in 2012 as "digital pioneers"--...

The Done Manifesto with 13 principles of getting to done has been circulated since 2009 (and recently reprinted in LifeHacker ). It wa...

Mental Floss (July-August 2011) has an article on the awesome art of "Christo and Jeanne-Claude ." Their pieces are large, imposin...

Whether you call it feedback or performance measurement, we all need information on how we are doing in order to keep doing better ove...

A number of weeks ago, I was at a CTO Event in DC and got to hear from colleagues about their thoughts on various technologies and IT trends...

As technology advances and supplants the “old ways” of doing things, some people are threatened that they are being put “out to pasture” and...

When we are confronted with difficult situations, people tend to two different responses: fight or flight. Generally, people will stand and...

NextGov reported on 9 Nov 2009, that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that “forecasts $3 billion in cost overrun...