As part of a government strategy to improve air quality, Britain is to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide pose a major risk to public health. The Guardian In the UK: It is estimated that air pollution causes 40,000 deaths a year
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Back in 1980 I worked for an insurance company in Central Manchester and was (no surprises) frequently the first person to arrive every morning so that I could have a morning huddle with myself and work out my priorities for the day. On the desk in front of me? No desktop, laptop or smartphone –
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As Season 7 of Game of Thrones takes us back to Westeros and re-introduces us to the characters we hate to love (don’t panic – no spoilers here) I’m wondering whether, in fact, winter is coming here in UK dentistry? Earlier this year (and on the recommendation of my friend and client Colin Lawson) I
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Yesterday’s Compulsory Basic Training with the good folks at Cheshire Biker Training was a useful reminder of how best we learn things and how we overcome our fears. I’ve never ridden a powered bike before in my life and so approached the day with a mixture of anticipation and concern. It was, like Sunday’s Ultra-Marathon,
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A client recently sent me 5 CV’s received in response to advertising for a new Practice Manager, this for a well-established private clinic in an affluent commuter town. When I’m asked (which is quite often) I have a routine: Check each CV for typos, formatting errors and poor grammar. Result – 4 of the 5 had
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In the bad old days, when I worked in corporate UK, there were some companies who employed a tactic called mushroom management, defined as: keep your people in the dark and feed them fertiliser OK – you know the last word wasn’t fertiliser but you get my drift. The larger the company, the more it
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One of my personal highlights of May 2017 was completing my 24th marathon in Liverpool and attracting over £2,300 of support for the “We Love Manchester” victims support fund. Apart from the generous support from my community, I also managed a 40-minute improvement on my previous completion time in Dublin (October 2016), at a time
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Reminder #1 You cannot motivate people. Carrots and sticks do not work. The following phrases are never effective: if you do this I will pay you a bonus if you don’t do this there will be consequences If you have to use either – you have already lost. You can only create environments in which
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Ready? Pen and paper in hand? Here are the criteria for recruiting new people into your organisation at every position: hungry blank sheets with a history of achievement outside of their education/career Hungry – I’m attracted to people who are on quests – determined to see the world and be seen by the world. Blank
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The news from Dentistry magazine and Persistence Market Research that the global dental implant market will grow by 9.7% per annum compound between 2014 and 2020 gives rise to consideration of the Rule of 72. Which states that if you divide the number 72 by the growth rate… 72/9.7 = 7.4 Then you will have
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