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

Just a self-reflection today... Important to me.  It's about who I thought I was and... Who I became.  Truly, I went full circ...

So great today to be back in the Holy Land of Israel.  Every time we come, we can literally see how the country has matured and built up...

After all the work is said and done... And there is still so much more that I earnestly hope and pray to accomplish with my life. Pe...

Thought this was an interesting perspective on retirement. There are three phases: 1) Go-Go:  You retire and are eager to enjoy your...

While sometimes children behave like "know-it-alls"... Often an attempt to showcase what they've learned or to build their...

I thought this was a great saying in the Wall Street Journal book review today. "Expect Less, Appreciate More." Many people ...

This guy was a hoot on the Metro in Washington, D.C.  His shirt says: "With age comes oldness." Ah, yeah! When he was si...

So there is the work at work.  And then there is the behind the scenes people stuff that goes on. And anyone who has been around the b...

Feelings are one of those things that make us oh so human.  We feel love and hate, joy and sadness, hopeful and anxious, peaceful and...

The first few times when I started hiking, I had this paradigm that I had to walk between the rocks--sort of like hopscotch--then I realiz...

There is a saying that "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."  But over time and a level of professional matur...

Fast Company (December 2008) describes Frenemies as a " thrilling intricate dance" of friend-enemy relationships . Half a year la...

I was fortunate to be in a terrific leadership development class this week held in coordination with University of Virginia, and one ...

I really liked the article in MIT Sloan Management Review (Fall 2010) called “Designing the Soft Side of Customer Service” by Dasu and Chase...

I love new technology as much or more than the next guy, but... Last month, I came across an article in USA Today called “ Army Ditches Velc...

In life, no one has only peaks or valleys. Life is a continuous cycle, and we must traverse “The Wheel of Life” (an ancient belief of many ...

In enterprise architecture, we routinely plan for new information technologies and not enterprise anything. In fact, what we now interpret a...

I have always been fascinated by leadership and how to grow an organization in spite of a broad variety of obstacles to change and maturity....