I’ve spent the last 3 months listening to Sheila Scott brilliantly explain how Edward De Bono’s 6 thinking hats can help dental teams to make tough decisions after all views are taken into account. Last week, a conversation with a client reminded me of the 4 hats of dental entrepreneurship. As a dental business owner,
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In the last three months, I’ve heard three dental corporates suggest that they are targeting over 200 new members in the next 10 years. We shall see in the next few months whether the land grab pushes those values higher (given what BUPA paid for Oasis) – it would be a brave soul who suggested
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Today Sheila Scott and I finish the 2017/18 Practice Plan Workshop Tour in Manchester; day 15 of 15 as we have travelled the length and breadth of the UK working with literally dozens of practices and hundreds of team members. Much more significantly, today marks the end of Sheila’s 30-year career in dentistry – when
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Chris Barrow has seen me at my best. And probably my very worst. Specifically, when we were halfway up the frozen scree slope of Mount Kilimanjaro, around 3am on a cold August morning in 2011. Chris, his wife Annie, myself and 22 others were on a fundraising climb for Bridge2Aid, the dental health charity I
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You may have heard the urban myth that, when a new leisure club opens in your town, they will aim at 15,000 paid memberships on the basis that only 5,000 people will turn up on a regular basis. When we launched the Extreme Business programme this year, I decided to add value to my clients’
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The news today that Asana, the project and task management software company, have raised $75m in funding from Al Gore’s London-based asset management company Generation Investment Management is a sign, if it were needed, that we all have a lot to do and need more sophisticated ways of keeping track. The remote team at Coach
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In the mid-19th century, a man named Carl B. Frank began importing Panamanian bananas to New York City. The fruit quickly became a popular street food throughout America, but the surge in urban migration and lack of sanitation regulation posed a major problem in cities. People often tossed their garbage into the streets, leading to
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Up at 05:00 this morning and back into my weekday routine for the first time since Friday 23rd December (which feels like 3 months ago and not 2.5 weeks). In spite of the fact that my body is still in recovery mode, I managed a 5k jog around Regents Park with only the company of
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I haven’t written a post in two weeks and, although the change has been as good as a rest, the call of the blog has been growing in my mind over the last few days as we have travelled across Mumbai and then around the Golden Triangle from Delhi to Agra, Agra to Jaipur and
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