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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Do you love your work? I’ve been coached by experts over the years and they have taught me to aim at spending 80% of my professional time doing the work I love to do and 20% leading and managing the support team who do everything else. I love 80% of my Bunker Days (like yesterday,
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My first question this morning is whether it would be useful to have 80 minutes of Chris Barrow, live and uncut, talking about: tips for newly qualified dentists; how to be a great associate; what’s coming next in dentistry: exit strategies for dental practice owners and top business tips in the current marketplace. all free
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There are two distinct versions of overwhelm. Overwhelm from above Taking too many things on. Being attracted by Bright Shiny Objects (BSOs). New applications and software, new technology, new courses, new equipment, new techniques, new philosophies, new gurus (!). You need to ask two serious questions before embracing the “new”: is this going to distract
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If you are running a three-chair practice with £500,000 in sales and 10 people, you can “wing it” 80% of the time and hold semi-formal meetings to create structures and protocols 20% of the time. If you are running a 6-chair practice with £2m in sales and 20 people, you can “wing it” it 20%
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Initially, it seemed there were two phases to getting dental practices focused on internal human interest marketing (and weaning them off the crystal meth of digital advertising – or the starvation of no effective marketing at all). Step 1 – convince the owners and the team that their patients are connected to the web, do
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For once, I’m going to refrain from naming the client I’m referring to in this post, to respect their confidentiality. However, I have to report my own feelings of exultation when they shared with me the results of their last 12 month’s performance. Increase in sales – 10%. Increase in net profit before tax –
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There comes a time in the life of every Dental Principal when you have to admit that you simply cannot do everything any more. Not only does that extend to running the business but also to delivering the dentistry. We all start our careers as novices and evolve through experience and post-graduate education to become
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Sunday was largely a Bunker Day – back in the world of the freelancer, reading and answering 180 emails and my preparation for the week ahead. After a week of high carbs and plenty of red wine, today it’s back on the Paleo nutrition and abstinence for me – one cheat day a week from
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Planning 10-12 weeks vacation every year. It’s still the best business decision I ever made. Listening to Dan Sullivan, founder of Strategic Coach, talking about Free, Focus and Buffer Days in July 1993 (Toronto) and, after 2 years of procrastination, taking the plunge in 1996. Sometimes doing crazy stuff (like the trip to Oman in
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