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

When we are confronted with difficult situations, people tend to two different responses: fight or flight. Generally, people will stand and...

Here is a poem written by a young adult who was recently confronted with a difficult choice - whether to go on a fancy trip to Europe or Per...

Last week, there was a 13-year-old boy, with Asperger’s syndrome, who ran away from home and rode away in the NYC subway system for 11 days ...

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...