Are You Smarter Than Your Phone?

I just got a “smart phone,” and I’m beginning to doubt my own intelligence! I am amazed at how much this thing can do. You’d hardly call it a “phone.” Maybe you have one, too. There’s e-mail, text messaging, weather, news, sports, shopping, internet, oh, and you can actual use the device to TALK to someone!

So why is this a career topic? Because for all the technology that’s literally “in your hand” — more I’m sure than went to the moon in 1969 — it’s just a supplement to the core of your career (especially your fundraising career). The essential element missing in the “smart phone”? You.

Unless this phone can hold down a close and personal relationship with a donor, a colleague, or your next future boss (maybe I just didn’t get that app?), your career still depends on you.

Who knows, maybe I AM smarter than this thing!