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

I though this was a fascinating ad for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). The little girl hanging onto to the UA...

I saw this and thought this was a clean version of "Never get into a pissing contest."  ;-) (Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal)

I thought this was a funny saying that my friend told me.  I'd agree with you but then we'd both be wrong! He said that he act...

I found this interesting about communications management.  On one hand, when discussing issues, you want to listen to everyone's inp...

It's interesting... There are a lot of good people out there, but there are probably more in your orbit that simply don't care o...

A colleague was talking to me about negotiating and working with others: He said something I liked:  Listen, empathize, and give a lit...

So yesterday, I started Ulpan classes to improve my Hebrew language skills (currently, I'm not very skillful with it). It was 2.5 ho...

I thought this was really fascinating about how we interact with others. It's a theory by Martin Buber called the I-Thou relationshi...

So I am working on myself to improve and be a better person. Recently, I had a number of experiences with people telling me of some very...

So I was talking to this nice gentleman. He was telling me that he lost his wife of over 27 years to cancer--this happened over 15 years...

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

I thought this was pretty good.  How do we go from hearing to listening? We have to be silent (and contemplative)! - Check out the l...

So on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone... I want to say that the iPhone is probably one of the greatest inventions of all times...cong...

So I remember this old comedy skit showing the problem with communication. There is a deaf guy trying to communicate with a blind guy. ...

Sometimes we may feel that we are right and that's it. Our inclination is perhaps to just do what we think and hold the line.  But ...

My daughter went to a cool work seminar yesterday on emotional intelligence and she told me five important takeaways for creating EI healt...

So I was speaking to someone recently about how angry they were with some stressful things and people in their life.  I listened careful...

So for those of you following my blogs about 613 (the number of commandments in the Torah)--this is blog 6 in the monthly series.  And ...

So have you ever had to deal with someone at work and they are NOT exactly acting the consummate professional? They may be volatile, ang...

So interesting article in BBC about the Samsung's "Listening TV." This TV has voice activated controls and they don...