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

This is a useful 4-part communications process (developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg): 1. Observations:   Tell the other person the beha...

Funny T-Shirt on solving computer problems: Does it work? Did you screw with it? Does anyone know? Can you blame anyone else? T...

So it's interesting how this whole immigration crisis is playing out in real life and simultaneously on TV.  In real life, we have a...

This was a funny sign.  "You don't have to be crazy to work here. We'll train you." Isn't that the truth too oft...

One of my colleagues at work had this hanging on his wall.  It caught my eye and I thought it was worth sharing. The creative process...

So something that I've learned is that processes can be an enabler or a hinderance to progress depending on how it's used. On on...

During the big snow storm this week, what better to do then to cozy up with a nice 500 piece puzzle set of an Island Beach (and dream of b...

I took this photo of this Design logo on the side of a bag this guy was carrying.  It is from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum...

An article in Federal Times (16 April 2011) states that "Experts See Little Return For Agencies' Cloud Investments." T...

The Done Manifesto with 13 principles of getting to done has been circulated since 2009 (and recently reprinted in LifeHacker ). It wa...

</object> Check this out... Maybe we should hire these guys to do our IT projects in the future? These guys have it all from planning ...

Technology is the great emancipator. With it we can do things ourselves that we needed others to do for us before. Of course, the exampl...

Frequently employees face double-bind message in the workplace and these not only impair morale, but also can result in poor decision-making...

A number of weeks ago, I was at a CTO Event in DC and got to hear from colleagues about their thoughts on various technologies and IT trends...

At work, there is almost no greater feeling than being part of a high-performing team, and no worse than being part of a dysfunctional one...

Decision-making is something we have to do every day as individuals and as organizations, yet often we end up making some very bad decisio...

True IT leadership means that those who are in charge of information technology really care about and drive the success of the mission, ...

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Andy Blumenthal Presents User-centric Enterprise Architecture View more documents from ablumen .

Part of what distinguishes a good enterprise architect from a mediocre one, is the ability to discern fact from fiction and the important fr...

Six Sigma is a set of practices originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects. A defect is de...