I’m cheating a little this week. I just rewrote the Super General Dental Practice and while researching the update, I ran across this article that I penned 8 years ago. Consider where we were a decade ago and see how this article of prophecy has fared. For a brief moment I wanted to re-title it as I TOLD YOU SO, but that’s just not me. Well, a ...
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Last weekend the title to this week’s blog was the preamble to a doctor who wanted to know how to take his practice to the next level. Later that same day, an older doctor was asking for help in how to sell his practice at a significant price when he began with: “You know, I never wanted to do that “associate thing”. That’s when the ...
Read MoreThis is a continuation of last week’s post titled, After the Sale. We are discussing the email below received as a response to an earlier blog entitled The Associate Pay Myth. Mike, Great article about associate pay. Could you write an article about retiring dentists who sell their practice and want to stay on as a part-time independent ...
Read MoreWho says no one reads my blogs? This is a question from a senior doctor about a sale and possibility of reversing roles where the seller becomes the associate and the buyer becomes the owner. Mike, Great article about associate pay. Could you write an article about retiring dentists who sell their practice and want to stay on as a part-time ...
Read MoreThose 6,500 graduates that I wrote about last week are looking for jobs and many established practices are looking to hire. Over the last few weeks, the number one question I get from senior doctors is: “What is the going rate for a new associate?” A seemingly simple question without a simple answer. From a new graduate’s perspective, ...
Read MoreMost of the time we think of January first as being the start of the year. Most of our practices operate on a fiscal or financial start and finish on the calendar year. We start our goals, diets, and new outlooks on the start of a new year. One exception is the academic school year. You start school around September of one year and finish that ...
Read MoreIf you sit back, stop “thinking like a dentist”, and consider any successful business, you would be hard pressed not to agree that any metric you can buy your way out of is probably not a useful metric to measure yourself by. Seth Godin, in his daily blog, said: “If it’s important and you can spend money to fix it, by all means go do that, ...
Read MoreAs a reminder, akrasia or being akratic is characterized by weakness of will resulting in action against one’s better judgment. In respects to these two articles, we are looking at the top 5 stressors in dentistry that hold us for ransom by breaking our will to succeed. We will take up with the third largest area of stress for the general ...
Read MoreI accidentally read an article and research about Aristotle last week. Aristotle was using the word “akrasia” to describe a common state of mind in which someone acts against their better judgment through weakness of will. In my words, when dentists act this way (akratic), they temporarily believe that the worst course of action is better, ...
Read MoreOver the last 6 weeks, I have endeavored to lay out a diagnostic plan that a sixth grader could follow. Basically, a fill in the blank, check the box, color by numbers approach to diagnosing why your office struggles. I have gotten dozens of emails from those that read the articles, followed the advice and are already seeing changes in their ...
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