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

So conducting large meetings is not often easy.  People have their own concepts as to where they'd like the discussion to go. Yes,...

Just want to share a quote that a colleague said they saw recently displayed at the Kennedy Center: "I can't understand why ...

I thought this was a very cool genie lantern on display at the Magen David Sephardic Synagogue last evening for the lecture on Women Poets...

You know how ideas just sort of come to you... Well, major innovations that have changed the course of history haven't really happe...

Interesting... Bloomberg Businessweek ran a special anniversary issue with a countdown of the 85 most disruptive ideas (in the last 85...

So very infrequently do suggestion boxes actually work.  In the office, I remember when the suggestion box was put out and the biggest...

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

I am really excited about this new Social Media application called  Betterific . It looks a lot like Twitter but is focused on ideas ...

This was a funny photo at the local Pot Belly eatery.   Their side door (right off their main entrance) is wide open, yet they have th...

It's really hypocritical that on one hand we put innovation on a pedestal, but on the other hand, we tend to nix new ideas.  The...

The New Yorker (9 July 2012) has an article on TED Talks.  TED stands for Technology/Entertainment/Design and is a conference venue f...

Leading by decree rather than merit usually means that the people are either beaten or brainwashed into submission--this is oddly remini...

Thinking “out of the box” is fundamental to free us from the prevailing status quo. Brainstorming can enable us to tackle problems creativel...

Harvard Business Review (HBR), April 2010, has an article entitled “Envy At Work” by Menon and Thompson that describes research that shows t...