After escaping from the crappy Copthorne on Friday morning it’s an easy 45-minute drive to Exeter airport, where an hour’s flight takes me North to Leeds/Bradford, along with the Exeter Chiefs rugby team who are typically boisterous even at this early hour. At Leeds/Bradford I meet with a client and his accountant to dicuss a
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..I stayed last night at the Copthorne Hotel in Plymouth. A trip to Plymouth yesterday and a flight from Exeter to Leeds/Bradford later this morning were enough to suggest that just one more overnight stay this year would be tolerable. Outside, the hotel looks like a Stasi interrogation centre. I even have spikes embedded on
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Telephone call-in day has just concluded are here is a compendium of the main questions asked: What do you think of my new web site? How do I make a start on my personal fitness? Where do I start on time management? I have a practice manager who has a long-term illness – what next?
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Now that my tour is over I really want to get my head around this concept again – UK dentistry is about to explode as an economic force and I’m becoming concerned that if I don’t do something soon – someone else will or the boat will pass us by.We asked 20 of our clients
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Trouble from my clients who will say “what about all of your lecturing on balance?” Trouble from my loved ones who will ask “where the hell were you?” Trouble from my support team who will shout “too transparent?” But I had a moment over lunch today to review my diary since 1st September and calculate
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Trouble from my clients who will say “what about all of your lecturing on balance?” Trouble from my loved ones who will ask “where the hell were you?” Trouble from my support team who will shout “too transparent?” But I had a moment over lunch today to review my diary since 1st September and calculate
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This week saw my final “on my feet” presentations of 2006 and, although public speaking is on my list of unique abilities (things I love to do that generate future profits), there is an internal sigh of relief this morning that I will not be seeing another hotel room until the New Year.The phrase “business
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In response to Kimberley Black’s challenge (read more): I trekked to Everest Base Camp in 1998; I played drums in a Church Lads Brigade band until they asked me to try the bugle (which I mimed for 2 years and never managed a note); I took my English Language O-level (High School diploma) twice –
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As I delivered that final DBS workshop in Edinburgh, the news came through that James Hull had sold a £20 million stake in his own company to a city investment bank. (Read more)The purpose of the investment is to finance the creation and acquisition of new, private, dental clinics offering cosmetic dentistry as well as
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It’s my last formal DBS workshop today – in Edinburgh – and although I’ll be making some smaller presentations between now and the end of the year, this is the finale of the workshop year. There won’t be champagne and dancing elephants at 4.30pm this afternoon but I’ll be heaving a sigh of relief internally
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