If you’re like me, I tend to gravitate towards black or white “truisms”. How about, “the early bird gets the worm”? This proverbial saying means that the one who arrives first has the best chance for success, and was first recorded in English in 1605. Seems pretty black and white, until you consider that the “worm” got there earlier ...
Read MoreAs a dentist and leader, we often talk and think about all the things we need to do to motivate others to follow us, to help us with our cause, to get on the same page, to engage in the process. I want to talk about three things I see people not do that dramatically affect their ability to get people to follow them, help them, and even respect ...
Read MoreI’m sure this has happened to you. Someone asks you a question and you answer it, then over the next 24 hours you get the same question about the same topic that you really did not expect to hear. I have had 6 calls in two days all relating to associates and partners in a dental practice. What was weird was that even though a couple of doctors ...
Read MoreI am sure there has never been a recent graduate who just received their diploma from Dental School who was joyously jumping up and down with the vision of becoming “average”. If you want to take a glimpse into the future, you need only look at your history or past. I thought it would be fun to make a short list of the Dental School myths we ...
Read MoreThis is a continuation of last week’s article on the nine things that hold doctors back from taking their practices to the next level. We begin here with number five. 5. Poor location: It is actually possible to become invisible to the normal patient you want to attract. Three decades ago, most dentists thought that being in a high-rise ...
Read More1. Holding a Limiting Belief 2. Lack of Consumerism 3. Thinking your job is doing dentistry 4. The wrong practice strategy 5. Poor location 6. Poor demographics 7. Doctor and staff fail to embrace change and apply the information 8. Financial captivity 9. Poor clinical results/skill Wouldn’t it be great to avoid the pitfalls of ...
Read MoreI guess most of us have experienced bullying. It comes in many forms: Intimidation, cheating, physical abuse, financial extortion, etc. The list is long and there is always another layer that pops up when you least expect it. Last week I was blind-sided when I arrived at the Arizona Dental Association’s Western Regional Dental Convention. Max ...
Read More(Note: Sharalyn Fichtl is a dental office compliance guru and we are pleased to have her expertise and to make her services available to more dentists in our BEST for Dentistry alliance. —- MG) Three years as a dental board investigator was an education I’ll never forget. So have the last ten years as a private dental compliance coach and ...
Read MoreI was fortunate to have been a dental lab tech prior to and during dental school. In fact most of my dental school professors had me do their crown and bridge. Because I continued to be trained as a master ceramist and had a full service lab in my office for over 30 years, I had the opportunity to improve our shade taking systems to a pretty fine ...
Read MoreOne of the most surprising results of speaking, writing a blog, or writing books, is that you get a lot of feedback. When it comes to The Super General Dental Practice, many mature practices see the benchmarks I have set as difficult at best, but for many impossible. I don’t agree, but I would like to put this in perspective. While we have many ...
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