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 ...

Hair Cuttery has 1,000 company-owned Salons in 18 states in the USA.   Dennis Ratner, the founder and CEO is a huge success story. -...

A colleague gave a wonderful talk the other day on process engineering. The key steps to reduce waste (Lean) or variation/defects (Six S...

So I thought this was very telling today about the difference between the public and private sectors... I was teaching a class and gave ...

So walking down the street here yesterday, I ran into a sign and was handed a postcard, declaring: "Sin Awareness Day" Then ...

The the other day, I was walking through the grass. I came across these toys horses that had been left in a pile. I thought ab...

Another good depiction of enterprise architecture. What we are, the divide, and what we want to be. We have to make the leap, but only...

So I heard from a colleague this week an argument about: Too much leadership dilutes good management.  AND [similarly] Too much mana...

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

I took this photo on the left yesterday (while the one on the right is from a CD music set). This lady was wearing this gorgeous shirt. ...

Mashable  (17 August 2013) has some good advice for job seekers--show you mean business and here's how to do it: 1) Integrity --This...

This was a short film/music video that my daughter brought to my attention.  It reminded me of the famous quote about how anyone can be ...

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

Sometimes a leader has to consider and implement a reorganization (“reorg”) as this can benefit a organization. Organizations are not a s...

Recently I read a classic article in Harvard Business Review (March-April 1992) called “Managers and Leaders,” by Abraham Zaleznik, in whic...

I saw this photo and thought this is a great image of why we need a clear vision and plan for the organization. So often we're going in...

There are all sorts of theories about what motivates people. The two most popular are Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Hertzberg’s Theory o...

The last thing any executive should be doing is getting caught up in the weeds of management. The executive needs to lead and define th...

Vision is often the telltale demarcation between a leader and a manager. A manager knows how to climb a ladder, but a leader knows where the...