Those 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, ...

If 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, ...

Get your spreadsheet, P & L Statement, and a copy of one week’s schedule and let’s take a look at page two of your Growth Analysis Spreadsheet concerning the bottom 7 line items (questions). 1. How old are you? When looking at where you are while strategizing on where you want to go, age and timing are everything. The decisions you make ...

I feel a little like a broken record for repeating this, but this is a multipart topic built on you having certain things in front of you as you compare and contrast the information we are discussing. If you have not downloaded and filled out the Summit Practice Solutions Growth Analysis Spreadsheet, do this now and fill it out. You will also need ...

THE SUMMIT GROWTH ANALYSIS SHEET On Star Trek, Dr. McCoy would take his trusted tricorder and quick as you can say Captain Kirk, we had a diagnosis, or solution to the problem. The tricorder is a multifunction hand-held device used for sensor (environment) scanning, data analysis and recording data. It was issued by the fictional organization ...