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

Profit is the typical motive of corporations around the world. However, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming more a part of our...

People are selfish; they think in terms of win-lose, not win-win. The cost of this kind of thinking is increasingly unacceptable in a world ...

I was on vacation in Miami last week and had the opportunity to spend some time (when not on the beach and in the pool) in one of my favorit...

We all know that change is not easy, even when it's necessary. As human beings, we question change, fear change, and at times resist ...

See my new article in Public CIO (June 2010) promoting healthy Work-Life Balance and the technology tools and policies that enable it.

There is the old adage that you can only manage what you measure . The problem is that most IT organizations either aren’t measuring much...

Sometimes a leader has to consider and implement a reorganization (“reorg”) as this can benefit a organization. Organizations are not a s...

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...