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

Organizations are all interested in what sells —what’s hot and what’s not! Of course, as advertisers learned long ago, “sex sells.” Wh...

Over a number of years, I’ve seen different management strategies for engaging employees. At their essence, they typically amount to nothing...

This week, we as humankind were renewed by the rescue of the 33 miners in Chile. “Viva Chile! They Left No Man Behind” writes Peggy Noon...

I really liked the article in MIT Sloan Management Review (Fall 2010) called “Designing the Soft Side of Customer Service” by Dasu and Chase...

Is technology progress measured by how far we've come or by what remains to be achieved? The Wall Street Journal (9-10, October 2010) ra...

Meaningful in life and in leadership... “The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to wi...

You’re all probably familiar with the capability of signing up for alerts to your computer or mobile device (phone, blackberry, pager, PDA...

New Iranian "Bavar 2" stealth flying boats with machine guns and surveillance cameras at ready. I guess this one tops the Terraf...

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/predictive-policing-22251759 Watch how COMPSTAT (COMPuter STATistics) and technology is being used f...

What happens when someone does something and you don’t like it—I mean you really don’t like it (and that something is painful—physically, e...

Obviously, I am a technology aficionado, but there is none more awesome than technology, which saves lives . So to me, defense systems (...

Talking about apps for your phone …this one is amazing from MIT Media Labs . Attach a $1-2 eyepiece (the "NETRA") to your p...

Introducing the Levytator—or escalator replacement. It is a creation of Jack Levy, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Uni...

The Associated Press is reporting that the Iranian Bushehr Nuclear Plant has been hit with a sophisticated computer worm called Stuxnet . ...

Topgrading is a best practice for hiring top performers, developed by Dr. Bradford Smart, and used by many leading companies. According to...

David Siegel has written a book called “Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web To Transform Your Business” (Dec. 2009). The main idea is tha...

Forbes Magazine (7 September 2010) has an interesting look ahead at the world over the next ten years. There were some notable predictio...

There is something fascinating to me about the doomsday clock—where we attempt to predict our own self-destruction and hopefully prevent ...

I really like Tony Robbins and especially his show on NBC "Breakthrough." Tony Robbins is incredibly motivational, inspirational...

There is a lot of interest these days in managed print solutions (MPS)— sharing printers and managing these centrally—for many reasons. ...