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

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Preventing a Future October 7 ." First and foremost, we need more and b...

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

So thought this was an interestingly funny flip chart.  It's titled "Colors". And it has the typical ones you'd expe...

So I thought this was pretty funny in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.  A wife is listening to the radio and she hears that a c...

What do herds do? First there are big mouths and groupthink. Then there is chasing each others tails. This could lead to literally ...

So my daughter took a training class in critical thinking at work.  And she brought home an excellent handout from the instructor, Haywo...

This was pretty funny in Starbucks.  This guy comes in with a briefcase and sets in down on the table.  He opens it up and proceeds to...

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...

Technology vendors have wised-up and are rushing to the cloud to give customers what they want.  You want cloud?   You got cloud! C...

Saturday Night Live has a spoof about Negative Nellie's and they call her Debbie Downer.  We all know people like this who are the Vo...

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...

Clive Thompson makes an interesting point in Wired (15 May 2013) on productivity versus creativity. He says that people seem more cre...

A number of years ago I had received an interesting job offer--not actually for a job I had applied to, but for "something else"...

Ira Chaleff speaks about his book The Courageous Fellowship . After seeing holocaust survivors with numbers tattooed on their arms from ...

My daughter sent me this amazing picture portraying how we can "think outside the box."  How many of us would ever have en...

An article in Federal Times (16 April 2011) states that "Experts See Little Return For Agencies' Cloud Investments." T...

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

Leadership is not about moving forward despite any and all costs, but about addressing issues head on . Cloud computing holds trem...