Seth Godin talks about a restaurant that serves “the one dish that people would drive across town to buy.” What’s your “one dish?” Please don’t tell me that you deliver state of the art dentistry in a relaxed and comfortable environment – pretty much every dental web site contains that statement, either in writing or
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Set some goals. Individual and/or team. How else will you know where you are going and whether you are on target? How else will your people know whether they are doing a good job or not? How else will you all stay confident? Here you go….(free downloads) 21 Professional Goals 21 Personal Goals or….. just
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This is a coaching process developed by the folks at Strategic Coach in Toronto and is one of my quarterly retreat activities, especially poignant at the start of a New Year. At the end of this post I have included a form that you can download. This is a very useful exercise for you AND
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Today will be the last of 6 days in The Barrow Bunker over the Christmas and New Year period – time invested in working ON my business. I began with an Xmas project list of 29 tasks (which grew to 34), ranging from quick fixes around the office and home to the development of a
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It takes longer than you think: to build an ethical business with a really valuable proposition to build a superb management/support team to whom you can confidently delegate to build a body of patients/clients who trust, respect and like you to earn referrals and recommendations to build sales to do the introspection and conversation that
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By pure coincidence I caught the first evening off-peak train from Euston to Stockport last Friday and the first morning off-peak back down again today. Both trains packed with passengers, some left standing for the whole journey. I’m surrounded by returning students, business travellers, shoppers and party-goers (including Ryan Giggs this morning, carrying his glad rags
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Food I fell off the Paleo nutrition tracks about 3 months ago and have steadily allowed the dreaded yet delicious carbs back into my life. It seems that in the last few days my body has decided to send me messages hailing “enough already!” and the main manifestation of that has been a sense of
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On Saturday at one of my favourite London CPD venues Seminars at 38 I attended the inaugural meeting of FIDES. A total of 16 in actual attendance, representing over a dozen micro-corporates and one owner who joined via Facetime from overseas. We welcomed visitors from all over the UK and an interesting mix indeed. After an introduction from Trevor
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In his celebrated work, The E-Myth Revisited, author and business coach Michael Gerber (inspiring me by still going strong at age 80) describes three categories of business owner: The Technician – whose unique ability is their technical proficiency in a chosen field (specialist dentist/coach); The Manager – whose unique ability is to manage and lead
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Rather inconsiderate, if I may say so, to issue the press release on the Friday morning that I’m frantically attempting to complete my task list before departing for a Northumberland coastal cottage, having committed to one lady and two excited hunting dogs that I’ll be off the grid for a week. Now, the biggest sacrifice
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