5.45am – alarm call 6.30am – start to prepare Powerpoint slides for this evening 8.00am – quick breakfast 8.30am – set up workshop room 9.00am – start Cobham DBS workshop 12.30pm – send workshop delegates for lunch and write article for Mastermind Blog 5.00pm – finish workshop, jump into car and drive to The Four
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I have an email this morning from a client asking why I haven’t written a blog entry for a few days – ooops, sorry. I took the weekend off to visit family and then straight into a heavy week of travel – must try harder. Sunday afternoon I drove down to Birmingham to meet for
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Last night I arrived at an old favourite – the Thorpe Park in Leeds, and was surprised and delighted to be upgraded to a suite – although how fun is that when you are alone? Having a desk to work at is cool though – and the hotel provide free wireless – better even than
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And, oh dear, the Sheffield Hilton haven’t got it quite right: Check in at 9.00pm last night was a bit of a farce. Arriving after a 360 mile drive in lashing rain wasn’t what I wanted. Euan, the receptionist, was a student on work experience who clearly hasn’t got the brand standard sorted yet. Telling
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The first use of the term “affluence” is attributed to J K Galbraith in his 1958 book “The Affluent Society”, in which he wrote: “In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.” Last night I sat down and watched Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and was mesmerised by
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Special offers – be careful and remember that the General Dental Council specifically outlaw any financial incentives to patients for treatment or recommendations to others. The only thing that seems to be waved through is the discount voucher and this is widely used – especially for the simpler cosmetics like tooth whitening. It’s not cheesy
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The Dental Business School has presented a 12-month business coaching programme to over 400 UK practices in the last 9 years.During that time, one of the greatest insights we have been able to give to our dental principals is the distinction between management and leadership. I’d like to share with you my definitions of each
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It’s New Year’s Day 2007 and I must be bored because I’m sitting in my home office training my voice recognition software to understand me for the first time.And so here is my first dictated blog post. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to use the software going forward to write e-mails, blog posts and
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Welcome to 2007. I’ve been reading the various blog posts I collect via Bloglines, with a cup of tea this morning – and it’s understandable that there is a lot of comment about Resolutions. You can read an interesting brief history and explanation of Resolutions here. I have to admit a desire to use this
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