Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

While we should certainly help immigrant refugees and those in need, we also need to provide adequate vetting and border security for our ...

Normally, little girls dream of and are treated as the beautiful princesses that they are.  But not in Rockville, Maryland last Thursday...

So change agents are some of the most sought after...yet most abhorrent individuals on this planet.  We all recognize that things can be...

The news about the refugee crisis is truly heartwrenching.   My own parents and grandparents were refugees from the Holocaust who c...

So not that anyone was so thrilled with the Syria and Iraq refugee idea post 9/11 to begin with... But now 31 States have come straight...

The New York Times today had an editorial called “Our Unrealistic Hopes for Presidents.” In this piece, Brendan Nyhan lowers the bar on...

So very infrequently do suggestion boxes actually work.  In the office, I remember when the suggestion box was put out and the biggest...

Great piece in the Wall Street Journal today on getting and giving advice.  This was a funny article about how most advice comes not fr...

What do you really care about? Your family (and close friends)--health and wellbeing, your finances, your job, your soul... If you'...

Regularly in IT, we field new technologies and systems. Often, we don't pay enough attention to the details of change management a...

There is an interesting new crowdsourcing application called  Seesaw . And like a seesaw goes up and down, you can take a picture and cr...

It's really hypocritical that on one hand we put innovation on a pedestal, but on the other hand, we tend to nix new ideas.  The...

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...

There are two common problems where immature or dysfunctional governance results in poor performance. When good governance is lacking, eith...

Homeland Security Today Magazine (March 2010) has an interesting article called “Biometrics on the Battlefield" about how t he American...

Diversity is essential to critical thinking, innovation, and improved decision-making/governance. The more ways we have at looking at a prob...

Let's say yes to sound governance , and no to absolute power... Power is a strange thing: the more you have, the more you want – it’s ne...

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...

With the largest Ponzi scheme in history ($50 billion!!) still unfolding, and savvy investors caught off guard, everyone is asking how can t...