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

A colleague was telling me a while back about a dysfunctional organization they were in and how it made them feel...well, dysfunctional.  ...

This was a funny photo... Sign around the ape says: Laugh now, but one day, we'll be in charge I guess you never know who will b...

So an executive colleague reminded me of something about bad bosses: People don't leave jobs, they leave [bad] bosses. It's ver...

So I heard something good about human capital that I wanted to share: It goes like this: "There are no smokestacks here, only peo...

I wanted to share some good tidbits about effective management, collaboration, and engagement that I heard this week at a Partnership fo...

So hooray for paper towels.  A good workspace is definitely conducive to productivity and morale.  That means cleanliness, open collab...

So perhaps the most damaging trait of failed leadership is hubris . When a leaders exhibits arrogance--bullies and degrades others, especi...

So here's a resolution for all of us for 2017... How about this year be the year of the customer! - Where we care more about doing ...

Farhad Manjoo has an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal on the gamification of the workplace.  In office gamification, employ...

Over a number of years, I’ve seen different management strategies for engaging employees. At their essence, they typically amount to nothing...

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

A leader directs or guides and is in charge or commands others. Almost by definition, a leader must have followers. An enterprise architect ...

The Wall Street Journal, 1 October 2007 reports that “employers should—and increasingly do—care about creating a great workplace.” Compa...