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

The pendulum has definitely swung—our personal and home technology is now often better than what we are using in the office. It wasn’t a...

Fortune Magazine (23 November 2009) named Steve Jobs of Apple, the CEO of the decade. Steve Jobs’ unveiled his “digital lifestyle” strat...

On November 4-5 2009, I attended a good CSC Leading Edge Forum on Cloud Computing. The kickoff by W. Brain Arthur was a highlight for me (h...

NextGov reported on 9 Nov 2009, that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that “forecasts $3 billion in cost overrun...

Recently, I read this amazing poem called " Autobiography in Five Short Chapters " by Portia Nelson (see below). It...

As a nation are we overworked? Are we just showing up, doing what we're told, and making the same mistakes again and again? Robert Reich...

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...

[Authored by Andy Blumenthal and published in Architecture and Governance Magazine November 2009] As technology has advanced in leaps and ...

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...

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 ...