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

One of the most important lifelines for a CIO or any executive is the communication from their people. That is why the best leaders go out...

Over time, people have transitioned the way they predominantly get their information and learn , as follows: 1) Experiential —people us...

Five Ways To Motive Employees With Meaning By Andy Blumenthal (Published in Information Management) Employees need to be motivated to perfor...

There are a lot of jokes about being a CIO—it is one of the toughest professional level jobs and has a high turnover rate (average is bar...

I don’t know about you, but I have always been a pretty big believer that you get what you pay for. That is until everything Internet ca...

It’s the information age and for most of us that means we are living and working with various forms of information technology every day giv...

In defense, it is a well-known principle that you determine your critical infrastructure, and then harden those defenses—to protect it. T...

It is easy to confuse high performing employees with high potential employees (HIPOs), but they are not the same. An article in Harvard...

This week we saw firsthand what uncontrolled deficit spending can do to a modern democratic nation, such as Greece. For all intents and ...

Really grateful to be honored this week by CIO Magazine with 2010 "Ones To Watch Award." Also, met some tremendously smart...

Most professionals know instinctively that they should act with integrity, if only to avoid getting caught. Yet, of course, not everyone doe...

Article from New York Times, 27 February 2010, called " We Have Met the Enemy and He is Powerpoint" should be titled "We Nee...

This is not an endorsement of any vendor or product, but rather just sharing a great example of how robust visualization and enabling techno...

In life, no one has only peaks or valleys. Life is a continuous cycle, and we must traverse “The Wheel of Life” (an ancient belief of many ...

There is a great quote by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech he gave called “The Man in the Arena” (1910). The quote is about not being deterred...

If you’re using a book reader like the Kindle or iPad and are downloading books to read, they are just like real paper books, except that th...

They call it City 2.0—that is cities that are IT enabled with all sorts of sensors and smart technology. Cameras monitor traffic flow. Senso...

Improving organizational performance is often grounded in identifying bottlenecks (constraints) and fixing them , so that the firm runs bett...

New Article by Andy Blumenthal in Architecture and Governance Magazine (April 2010) http://tinyurl.com/y3xgrlb __________________________...