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

Contrary to the stereotype, in my observation government employees are just as creative as those in the private sector. The reason they may ...

Toyota is a technology company with some of the most high-tech and “green” cars on the planet. But right now Totoya’s leaders seem to lack i...

A big part of leadership and of life is understanding that things are not always what we expect. We have to be prepared to deal with strange...

What happens when one set of enterprise architects can’t read another’s enterprise architecture “artifacts”? This may sound ridiculous, b...

Typically, success is attributed to nature, nurture, hard work, persistence; plain old luck, and of course, Divine intervention—always. But...

It’s funny that we get so used to the way things are in our country and culture that it becomes difficult to think there is any other workab...

Recently I read a classic article in Harvard Business Review (March-April 1992) called “Managers and Leaders,” by Abraham Zaleznik, in whic...

Technology is the great emancipator. With it we can do things ourselves that we needed others to do for us before. Of course, the exampl...

Frequently employees face double-bind message in the workplace and these not only impair morale, but also can result in poor decision-making...

It’s intuitive that organizations should manage oriented to serve their customers, because it’s the customers who keep them in business. Yet...

Real planning is hard work. I’m not talking about the traditional—get the management team together, offsite for a few hours or days and spe...

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To be a great leader, you have to have the qualities that make others want to be led by you. Obviously, a leader without followers can’t lea...

In the organization, you can’t really do anything without management commitment and a certain degree of consensus . In fact, management comm...