The most paranoid among us already know the checklist to avoid modern audio eavesdropping: Sweep your home or office for bugs. Put your phone in a Faraday bag—or a fridge. Consider even stripping ...

Are you suffering from “shiny object syndrome”? If you find yourself constantly distracted by the latest business trends and innovations, jumping from one idea to the next without fully realizing any ...

Like many professional advisors, I love checking out all new shiny objects coming down the pike. If they can make our professional lives easier, why not? Sometimes, it's a new app or a new way of ...

Constantly pursuing new ideas feels strategic and proactive, but what it’s actually doing is resetting momentum instead of getting you anywhere new. Anchor every decision to one key metric. Before ...

Since the dawn of marketing, teams have been regularly sidetracked from solid strategic work to investigate if they "should be using [insert new shiny thing]." In the late 2000s, social media was ...

I’m not one to brag, but for a short period of time, I was a top Kindle publisher in the not-so-large Amish romance genre. I’m from rural Pennsylvania, but even with that credential, I never thought I ...

One of the things that I love about working for myself is that I don’t need to ask anyone’s permission before making a decision. If I want to make a change, I go for it, on whatever timeline makes ...