How Critical is Your Smart Phone?

As a technology information source, here at the CPA Tech Views blog and at the The CPA Technology Advisor we generally focus on how technologies can aid in streamlining workflow in professional practices or even enhance client relationships. The point is often made that effective implementation and adaption is key: In other words, how the technology is being used determines its effectiveness.

Well, for some people, non-use can also be an effective strategy. And that doesn’t just mean old-school curmudgeons who refuse to see the promise in proven technologies. Believe it or not, some of the top business leaders in the U.S. have shunned mobile phones because of their potential for distraction from other issues. They include Warren Buffett, Tavis Smiley and New Jersey Jets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. You can read more about them and other modern leaders who are strategically restricting their technology use at this Yahoo Finance article.

This might be inspiring to those who see mobile technologies blurring or even erasing the line between work time and personal time, with a resulting diminishing of the quality of both categories (or so it seems to me). But, while these are powerful and busy people who are managing this feat, they are not actively running small service-based businesses that have to be quickly responsive to client needs. And, more importantly, they have assistants to help them- so when it’s something really important, even if they don’t have a phone, their right-hand man or woman certainly does.