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

There is a new vision for security technology that blends high-tech with behavioral psychology, so that we can seemingly read people’s minds...

Thinking “out of the box” is fundamental to free us from the prevailing status quo. Brainstorming can enable us to tackle problems creativel...

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort ...

Harvard Business Review (HBR), April 2010, has an article entitled “Envy At Work” by Menon and Thompson that describes research that shows t...

There is a classic article in Harvard Business Review entitled “The Hard Work of Being A Soft Manager” (1991) by William H. Peace, which sum...

So much for letting the best product win. According to the Wall Street Journal, 13-14 March 2010, Microsoft is forcing their employees to “...

The Chief Information Officer is a complex and challenging role even for those highly experienced, well educated, and innately talented ....

Please note: I have consolidated the User-Centric EA blog into The Total CIO blog, and all posts (including archives) can now be found here...

Less than two months after devastating earthquakes on 12 January 2010 toppled much of Port-Au-Price, Haiti leaving more than 220,000 dead an...

Los Angeles is moving to the cloud, according to Public CIO Magazine March 2010, and “they are the first government of its scale to chose Gm...

There continues to be a significant shortfall in our cyber security capabilities, and this is something that needs our determined efforts to...

</object> Check this out... Maybe we should hire these guys to do our IT projects in the future? These guys have it all from planning ...

These are my remarks from the MeriTalk Innovation Nation 2010 Conference , "Edge Warrior" Panel today. I was the Moderator and thi...

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...