I’m delighted that this event is going ahead from Friday 29th September to Sunday 1st October 2017. Those attending are going to benefit from total immersion in their 2018 personal and business plan – personally coached by me and sharing the experience with similar couples, all of whom share the ownership and work inside independent
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Once upon a time, I was the 7th of 7 people in a company who were asked to proof read a client newsletter – and found 11 typos in the document. Rather than blow my top, I simply returned the attachment, with the typos highlighted, corrected and a note to ask why the other “readers”
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The Business Course Part 1 At the Campbell Academy, we run a Business Course that we call TBOB (The Business of Business) it’s just a nickname for the course that we started in February. If you want to know what it looks like here is link to the video. It’s really good, try and watch
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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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What makes a dental business stand out from the crowd? What are their unique selling propositions? I was recently musing on the strategies and tactics that differentiate the absolute greats in the business of dentistry from the good and the rest. Out came my Livescribe pen and the magic Moleskine notebook so that the list
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As a committed member of the innovation tribe, I downloaded the beta versions of macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 over the weekend (just in case that doesn’t mean very much to you, they are the next generation of operating systems for Apple Macs and iPhones and will launch to the general public in the
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Yet again, yesterday, examples of the need for patience in business building. Patience. A delightful conversation with a prospective new client who has been “following my stuff” for years, has embraced many of the ideas we have shared here and across other channels – and finally felt the need to connect with me personally and
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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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Later today I’m off to West Yorkshire to facilitate the first monthly management meeting with a new client and his management team (after, I suspect, a few moments of celebration for the Huddersfield Town result on Monday). When you’ve been doing the job as long as I have, it’s easy to take certain things for
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A frequently heard lament from Principals is: I’m drowning in routine maintenance and don’t have the time to focus on higher value treatments. In any event, there is no way that the patients will agree to see another dentist – they have been seeing me for years and will kick up a fuss if I
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