What a pleasure it was yesterday to drive over into Devon and meet with new clients who are at the very beginning of their business adventure. A 4-person dental laboratory with a man and wife team in charge, who are entering their 4th year in business. We began with a tour of the lab (which
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Sent to me by my good friend Paul Fox: A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man’s emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then
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Those P&O ferries plough their way back and forth across the English Channel and the North Sea – day after day of relentless repetition which must take its toll on both crew and machinery.So every now and then they are steered into port, where the crew can rest and the machinery can be checked and
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After a quite crazy week of touring (in fact I spent 10 consecutive nights in hotels) the weekend was about recovery – a complete chill out with sleep, nutrition and fresh air high on the agenda. For most of last week I felt as if I had a lead boot in my stomach – due,
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5.45am – alarm call 6.30am – start to prepare Powerpoint slides for this evening 8.00am – quick breakfast 8.30am – set up workshop room 9.00am – start Cobham DBS workshop 12.30pm – send workshop delegates for lunch and write article for Mastermind Blog 5.00pm – finish workshop, jump into car and drive to The Four
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I have an email this morning from a client asking why I haven’t written a blog entry for a few days – ooops, sorry. I took the weekend off to visit family and then straight into a heavy week of travel – must try harder. Sunday afternoon I drove down to Birmingham to meet for
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Last night I arrived at an old favourite – the Thorpe Park in Leeds, and was surprised and delighted to be upgraded to a suite – although how fun is that when you are alone? Having a desk to work at is cool though – and the hotel provide free wireless – better even than
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And, oh dear, the Sheffield Hilton haven’t got it quite right: Check in at 9.00pm last night was a bit of a farce. Arriving after a 360 mile drive in lashing rain wasn’t what I wanted. Euan, the receptionist, was a student on work experience who clearly hasn’t got the brand standard sorted yet. Telling
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The first use of the term “affluence” is attributed to J K Galbraith in his 1958 book “The Affluent Society”, in which he wrote: “In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.” Last night I sat down and watched Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and was mesmerised by
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Special offers – be careful and remember that the General Dental Council specifically outlaw any financial incentives to patients for treatment or recommendations to others. The only thing that seems to be waved through is the discount voucher and this is widely used – especially for the simpler cosmetics like tooth whitening. It’s not cheesy
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