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

There is the old saying that rings true to basic leadership: “Keep it Simple Stupid,” (or KISS) yet for various reasons people and organiz...

To believe or not to believe that is the question. Very frequently in life, we are confronted with incomplete information, yet by necess...

User-centric EA analyzes problem areas in the organization and uncovers gaps, redundancies, inefficiencies, and opportunities; EA uses this ...

This video was sent to me and I do not know the original source (except VW), but it's great. It shows what happens when you take the mos...

If you watch House MD on TV, House always says something sort of striking: “everyone lies.” Today, an article in the Wall Street Journal...

Recently, I was reminded of an interesting article that appeared in The Wall Street Journal (20 Dec 2007) that what really matters in life i...

Every day in the mail comes oodles of consumer catalogs: printed on quality stock paper, glossy, and many almost as thick as the community...

One of the most exciting emerging technologies out there is Augmented Reality (AR). While the term has been around since approximately 19...

Experts have been teaching parents for years to discipline children, when needed, with timeouts. This is seen as a combined rehabilitative...

At the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit this past week (October 7-9, 2009), I heard about this new math for value creation: Nothin...

It is pretty hard to give and to get honest feedback. It is often acknowledged that performance reviews are one of the most difficult task f...

Mission execution and performance results are the highest goals of enterprise architecture. In the book Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani, he...

Watch this helpful video on effective presentations by Paul Maloney and Associates (a product of Gartner). Understand and rectify the top 1...

In MIT Technology Review , 19 September 2007 , in an article entitled “Intelligent, Chatty Machines” by Kate Green, the author describes adv...

What is conflict? In the book Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan, the author states “ Conflict arises whenever interests collide …what...

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md) said that an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)—“it would bring down the whole [electrical] grid and cost between $1 ...

Traditional management espouses that executives are supposed to develop a vision, chart a course for the organization, and guide it to that ...