I was talking to a Principal the other day who admitted that she had been too busy to update the practice financial analysis reports previously (and painstakingly) shared with her. “We are doing really well at the moment and the appointment books are full, so all the accounts, spreadsheets and KPIs have taken a bit
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I’m sorry if you’re not an Apple user but stick with me because what I have to say is relevant even if you use those less fashionable devices (and if you are in business). I’m noticing that Apple’s latest operating system, Mojave, is eating up my RAM. I’m seeing more beachballs than previously as well
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The photograph you are looking at is the 1944 desk diary used by ElizabethNorman to record her daily “to do” lists. Elizabeth worked in the “Future Operations Planning” department of Churchill’s War Rooms from 1942 to 1944. The entry we are looking at is from “D-Day” – 6th June 1944 – the Allies were invading
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The news from Dental Protection last week that 89% of dentists fear that their patients will sue them and that 64% are referring to other dentists as a result must sound like music to the ears of the specialist referral clinic. It’s not, however, the kind of information that is going to be of much
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There’s a risk in confessing to an audience “I worry sometimes that, when I talk about marketing, I sound like a scratched record”. The risk, of course, being that a certain demographic of listeners won’t understand what I’m on about. For those of us old enough, the idiom relates to what happens when the stylus
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It has been said that there is no such thing as time management (we all have 24 hours a day) and, therefore, there is only priority management. If we work too many hours and don’t get to see our family, it’s because we have prioritised work first. If we never get to the end of
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I was recently looking through one of my client’s average daily production figures and the change we have seen over the last 2 years. He is the Principal of a small family-owned practice in a rural area, providing a range of private treatment options – a membership plan and fee per item treatment as required.
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A lightbulb moment yesterday, whilst in conversation with my business coach, Rachel Turner (by the way, you know you are getting your money’s worth from your business coach when that happens). You see, I have a couple of projects on at the moment that can have a huge impact on my future business BUT I’m
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There is something very therapeutic about having a good clear-out. Over the weekend, we vacated the ground floor (lounge and dining room with connecting french windows) in preparation for Phil The Decorator, who will be arriving at 08:00 this morning. It’s effectively going to be a lick of paint, as you might say. There will
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Well I haven’t won the lottery (which may have something to do with not having bought a ticket, rather than my iPhone not listening to me) but I have switched off Siri on said iPhone and on my Macbook. We don’t have any smart speakers at home (Alexa et al) but I would have been
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