Andy (Avraham) 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.  ...

What a cool centerpiece for a colleague's baby shower.  All those rolled up and tiered diapers and baby toys.  Creative and fun-...

Thought this was funny at work.  One person writes: Be Happy. Have Fun.  Another chimes in: Ok, I will! And finally a 3rd person...

So thought this was an interestingly funny flip chart.  It's titled "Colors". And it has the typical ones you'd expe...

So this was a little surprising.  In the courtyard (next to the cafeteria) at work, there is a nice seating area open during the Spring/...

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

So there are some mighty impressive places to work that really shine in terms of the technology they use and the constant desire to upgrad...

As I continue to learn more about organizational success strategies, I am coming to understand that the underlying culture of the organiza...

This was the first time that I have ever seen an inspector in Starbucks... See the lady in the white lab coat with hair cap and gloves.....

So I was speaking with some leaders about what is most important to them in their organization.  And what was fascinating to me is that ...

Here's a photo I snapped of one of the Fantastic Four (superheroes). He's telling the evil Galactus, who drains planets of the...

This was a funny sign on the parking meter. "All May Park. All Must Pay." Another way of saying this is like at the dry...

Senator Chuck Grassley posted a video of the Acting Director of the ATF sternly warning employees that "if you don't find the ...

There is a law in Switzerland that every citizen has to have quick access to a bomb shelter and that all new residences be outfitted w...

Strategy + Business (Spring 2011) has an interview with Edgar Schein, the MIT sage of organizational culture. In it, he describes why it ...

New article in Public CIO Magazine by Andy Blumenthal: Aligning Your Stars: Leadership Success Often Depends on Finding the Right Situation ...

From the financial and credit crisis, to soaring energy prices, job losses, foreclosures, and run-away inflation, people’s investment portfo...

There is a better way to showing customer love than inundating them with marketing and communications that are not coordinated, not focused,...

Enterprise architecture is about managing change and complexity in the organization. EA establishes the roadmap to evolve, transform and rem...

“The Kübler-Ross model describes, in five discrete stages, the process by which people deal with grief and tragedy. Terminally ill patients...