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

So this was some awesome drumming at the Renaissance Festival today. The beating of the drums was powerful and in a sense mesmerizing.  ...

A wonderful colleague sent me this really impressive photo. This was one of my favorite of 3 aircraft carrier strike groups taken t...

What beautiful weather we are having this time of year. Just loved this gorgeous Cherry Blossom tree with the white leaves against the p...

So my wife and I have a longstanding disagreement on the best way of teaching children.  Her perspective: TEACH TO CARE - Get the kids...

So the military got it right when they teach their cadets to stand tall "at attention." "Chin up, chest out, shoulders ba...

An article in CIO Magazine (1 March 2012) describes the term "CIO Squared" as "the combination of chief information offic...

In a leadership course this week, I was introduced to the “ Insights Wheel of Color Energies,” a framework for understanding people’s p...

The Chief Information Officer is a complex and challenging role even for those highly experienced, well educated, and innately talented ....

Which does your leadership do? Do they play it safe -- staying the same familiar course, avoiding potential change and upset or do they pr...

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...

Generally, IT governance is based on the assumption that by vetting decisions in groups or boards—such as an Enterprise Architecture Board o...

One of enterprise architecture’s “targets” is to transform the organization from being purely monolithic, functional-based silos (like opera...