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

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Here is a comparison of the roles and responsibilities of supervisors and team leaders.  Often there can be confusion over who is suppos...

I was most impressed recently with the organization (including the marketing and branding) behind the LGBT movement.  The new bumper ...

Sometimes, one person can be so instrumental to the success of an organization that they really are, for all intensive purposes, irreplacea...

So this guy has a job where he is at the front of a line of people passing buckets of sh*t to the next guy in the line.  A stranger ...

A lot of colleagues tell me that they hate office politics , and for many it represents their one-way ticket to ongoing bickering, infig...

The New Yorker (24 October 2011) has a clever take on the urge of some--in this case, the privileged--to try and preserve the status q...

We are living in tough economic times, and according to a recent news article, even those who have jobs are often feeling the pain. USA T...

Published in Government Technology By Andy Blumenthal We are living in a material world , and I am a material girl.” — Madonna

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We all know that people respond better to some managers than others—for some, people will go “the extra mile.” University of Virgi...

Rarely does a movie get an 8.7 out of 10 in the reviews, so I had to go see the movie 127 Hours about Aron Ralston, the hiker who got tr...

Organizations are all interested in what sells —what’s hot and what’s not! Of course, as advertisers learned long ago, “sex sells.” Wh...

What happens when someone does something and you don’t like it—I mean you really don’t like it (and that something is painful—physically, e...

There is an oft-cited best practice for conflict resolution called the speaker-listener technique —in which the speaker explains their posi...

The leaders, planners, architects, and consultants in the proverbial ivory tower have become a poignant metaphor for what ails our organizat...

People are selfish; they think in terms of win-lose, not win-win. The cost of this kind of thinking is increasingly unacceptable in a world ...

Sometimes a leader has to consider and implement a reorganization (“reorg”) as this can benefit a organization. Organizations are not a s...

It is easy to confuse high performing employees with high potential employees (HIPOs), but they are not the same. An article in Harvard...

New Article by Andy Blumenthal in Architecture and Governance Magazine (April 2010) http://tinyurl.com/y3xgrlb __________________________...