As is often the case, a great strategy can become a disaster if you don’t understand the consequences and risks. I received a call from a young doctor who wanted to buy an existing practice just 3 miles down the road from him. So far so good: Practice acquisitions can be a fast track to increased patients and production, and when done ...
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I was reading a weekly newsletter from Jon Gordon entitled: 5 Ways to Be Happier at Work. I guess from the title that a lot of people out there are not happy. Or, perhaps a lot of people expected that work or anything else physical was going to “make” them happy. Life doesn’t work that way. Another supposition I assume from the title is that ...
Read MoreI recently received the following in an email from a dentist client. The subject line read Hygiene Drama. We have a conversation going on as to whether the fee for exams should be credited to the hygienist’s production or the doctor, and does it make a difference whether it is the initial comprehensive exam or periodic? Here is my ...
Read MoreI was reading Craig Wilson’s article, Final Word: Fall down on diet, friends will know. Allow me to summarize it. “It appears the we-must-all-be-on-a-diet world has gone even crazier. How a $60 billion a year industry just keeps churning along is testament to how obsessed we all can be. I just read there’s a new gadget released this ...
Read MoreWhat is this “super general dental practice”? You already know, if you have attended one of our breakaway seminars that everyone is talking about called the “180 Degree Dental Journey”. If not, please just email me and let me send you an article that lays out the four threats to dentistry as we know it, and what will insure your ...
Read MoreIf you’re not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he’s the famous comic scientist who once said: “I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates.” His mind sees things differently than most of us do. Here are some of his gems: 1 – I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 – Borrow ...
Read MoreI was trying to write an article that verbalizes how we as dentists and dental offices need to create a culture of caring and compassion while still taking care of business. As any of you know that have read some of my 30 page ramblings, words seldom escape me, but I was reading a blog by Jeff Whittle and I was mesmerized. He put it better ...
Read MoreEverybody wants the short answer to: What should I do right now? Is there a simple way to correct an entire career of not being engaged in your practice? Well this may not be so simple, but it is step one in taking back control and re-engaging in your career. In laying out this strategy, I recognized there were three “broad stroke, got to get ...
Read MoreIf you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers. Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by ...
Read MoreTo All, I want to address how the political arena is going to affect your business. First, we must assume that Obama could be re-elected. Most of the power of ObamaCare comes directly from the Secretary of HHS, which is the executive branch. This means that even if Republicans win both houses, it is hard to imagine them being able to stop ...
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