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

When we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us... We can truly reach great heights!  ;-) (Credit Photo: Rebecca and Itzchak)

The joys of learning. Sitting and reading. Mental calisthenics. It takes discipline.  Got to work those neurons!  ;-) (Credit Photo: Michell...

If you know your own strength and what you can do... Then you also know what you can't  do. While our dreams and imagination can be ...

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Unstoppable Fear Meets Immovable Humiliation ." The Israeli-Palestinian ...

Managing IT projects is no easy task. You've got to get the requirements right.  Technical issues need to be resolved.  Dependen...

So there is a popular saying: "You can't eat the elephant in one bite." The idea is that you need to break things down in ...

I thought this saying from a colleague was really astute. "Everybody hates the status quo   but nobody wants to change." H...

Check out this guy's shirt: "Those who think they know EVERYthing annoy those of us who do." What would make this grown ...

I wanted to share some good tidbits about effective management, collaboration, and engagement that I heard this week at a Partnership fo...

Sometimes, one person's clothing hook is another person's elephant trunk. Or maybe it's the other way around that some creat...

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...

One of the things that I love about the Intelligence Community (IC) is that they think future and they think big.  Noah Schactman in  ...

An article this week in the Wall Street Journal (15 May 2012) called us "a nation of whiners." The national insult aside,...

This robotic seeing eye dog from Japanese company NSK is an incredible display of how technology can help the blind and was profiled in Pop...

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

What an inspiring story this week about Jim Brozina and his daughter Alice Ozma. Jim's wife left him when Alice was ten years old. An...

Five Ways To Motive Employees With Meaning By Andy Blumenthal (Published in Information Management) Employees need to be motivated to perfor...

Recently, I read this amazing poem called " Autobiography in Five Short Chapters " by Portia Nelson (see below). It...

Innovation is powerful, and with power comes responsibility. When we think creatively and “out of the box”, we break the mental bounds tha...