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

This is a useful 4-part communications process (developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg): 1. Observations:   Tell the other person the beha...

So one lesson of life that I have learned is about criticism.  It's easy to criticize, but tough to come up with real solutions.  ...

Sometimes, others can get negative at you in life. People are unhappy.  They are being unreasonable. Complaints are rolling in.  I...

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 got some bad news and really good news from a colleague at work this week.  The bad news was that he was concerned that he hadn't ...

So I ordered a pair of swim fins to replace a pair that recently ripped in the pool.  I went online and ordered a brand NEW pair.  A f...

This was a funny painting in the gallery.  A naked lady with a big colorful sun hat on.  Be careful you don't want to get too...

So a colleague from a law enforcement agency told a funny story the other day. When he was an agent-in-training he said they told them, ...

Finally some realism about how to conduct employee evaluations... The Wall Street Journal reports that in the past employees could e...

It's funny that people derive so much of their self esteem from others.  If someone says something nice to/about them, then they f...

Okay, this was the second week in a row at Starbucks that I've seen people BYOF. BYOF = Bring Your Own Food. This gentleman rel...

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

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

So I was amazed at the depths to which Sears will go to try to save their horrible brand.  The Wall Street Journal (21 July 2013) descr...

So I heard a new saying: "From Happy To Glad." I asked some folks "What is that was all about?" They explained tha...

Going to a restaurant the other night, I stepped into the men's room for a minute and noticed this sticker on the right of the mirror ...

So I was learning about some management best practices in terms of there being 7 major types of difficult employees: Challengers --emplo...

Yesterday, I go into a store with my daughter to shop for a new iPhone case. A clean-cut kid--maybe 13 years old--comes out from b...

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

Perfection is a destructive force. And the French philosopher, Voltaire recognized this when he said " Perfect is the enemy of...