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

Great new iPhone App by the San Ramon Fire Department called FireDepartment . This life-saving iPhone app notifies citizens trained in ...

For Memorial Day...taking some time out--and loving it! :-) Thought this optical illusion by Shigeo Fukuda was pretty cool to shar...

A friend sent this to me and I wanted to share it with others who can benefit. Hope you enjoy! _______________________________________...

Perfection is a destructive force. And the French philosopher, Voltaire recognized this when he said " Perfect is the enemy of...

Salman (Sal) Khan is amazing! He quit a job as a hedge fund analyst to start a free and now highly popular educational website Khan Academ...

There are lots of biases that can get in the way of sound decision-making . An very good article in Harvard Business Review (June 2011)...

With all the questions about peace in the Middle East, there is a lot of enthusiasm for a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestini...

On July 4, 1976--the 200th anniversary of our free and democratic nation, something incredible was happening in Uganda--Operation Entebbe ,...

Enjoyed speaking with Francis Rose today on Federal News Radio (1500 AM) on the subject of employee motivation, especially in a challen...

In a conversation with a good friend recently, we got to talking about integrity--the meaning and of course, the importance. And at one p...

Much has been written about the importance of meaning in driving a productive and motivated workforce . Already in 1964, Frederick Herzbe...

I have a new article in P ublic CIO Magazine (April/May 2011) on the topic of Accountability In Project Management : We've all be to ...

What an inspiring story this week about Jim Brozina and his daughter Alice Ozma. Jim's wife left him when Alice was ten years old. An...

This is an incredible video of Yves Rossy, the former Swiss military pilot, who became "Mr. Jet (or Rocket) Man". Rossy is the r...

I was outraged to read the opening article in the May 9-15, 2011 issue of BusinessWeek ( which I usually greatly respect): "Why Bin Lad...

This video is funny and enjoyable to watch; only 20 million views on line...am I late to this one? Leadership lesson: some things are just...

What a great article in the Wall Street Journal today (7-8, May 2011) about the Navy SEALs . No, the article is not about how they...

Everyone remember the I Love Lucy show ? Well, that show really epidemized what it meant to surprise and be surprised by all the antics tha...

Ok, so the only topic that can compete with the killing of Osama Bin Laden (OBL) this week is an an article about sex --what??? No, I am no...

On April 27, 2011, Pepsi announced the launch of it's state-of-the-art "Social Vending Machine." It's a touch screen, netw...

The Guardian U.K. (2 April, 2011) has this wonderfully inspiring story about a very special body builder . Dr. Charles Eugster is a ...

First there was Wikipedia and now there is Quora . On January 15, 2011, Wikipedia celebrated it's 10 year birthday, and according to B...