Want to get rich as a team in the new economy? Here is your ticket: Authentic Gratitude. The US Department of Labor and Statistics reports that the number one reason why Americans quit their jobs is that they don’t feel appreciated. Studies show that gratitude and appreciation are on the decline in the world, and … Read more

Ken Blanchard explained it best when he said, “The gap between LEARNING and DOING is bigger than the gap between IGNORANCE and KNOWLEDGE.” Continuing education is an important part of any quality-oriented dentist’s development. Utilizing what we’ve been taught, or know to be true, often becomes the difficult part of this equation. So how do … Read more

Finding a great team in today’s employment market can sometimes be a challenge. Dr. Frank Spear said during his Practice of Excellence course last fall said that there are two kinds of employees in a dental practice: “There are energy takers and there are energy givers.” I’ll go as far as replacing the words “energy … Read more

Having the RIGHT hygienist in any practice can change the lives of the team members and the patients they serve. All too often, dentists look for a hygienist to bring great value to the practice, but they are unclear about their own expectations of the position they are trying to fill, which makes it even … Read more

Our brochures, websites & mission statements all proclaim our patients are our highest priority. We have often been led to believe this mantra will propel us forward into the land of ubiquitous practice ecstasy. While this is part true, and may work for a while, a shift in thinking has to occur to propel you … Read more

The golden financial tip of all time is something that dentists hear all the time…yet so few ever put it in place. PAY YOURSELF FIRST by saving 10% and living on the remaining 90%. Why is this so hard? Maybe the answer ties into February’s Recommended Read: The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach. He talks … Read more

With the uncertainty that looms in today’s economic climate, patients are more perplexed than ever on how to pay for things. The dental and medical communities have taken a back seat to big business’s exposure to learning curves when it comes to consumers’ spending priorities. Big businesses learned fast, while the dental and medical community’s … Read more

You can’t open a newspaper or turn on a television without hearing something about the dangerous state of the economic climate in this country. We hear words like: Bail Out, Crash, Housing Crisis and Recession all of the time. These words have the toxic ability to penetrate our psyche and permeate our casual conversation. In … Read more

Comprehensive dentistry in 2008 requires a simplistic yet powerful model of profitability that very few dentists discuss, or even know about. The short of it is that your overhead has to be within reaching distance of 50% (instead of the national average of 67-72%). The race of running a profitable practice is getting tougher. Outrunning … Read more

Many pundits argue that the United States won’t see any relief from the current recession until 2011, at the earliest. It’s my opinion that many of the challenges that this country faces haven’t even surfaced yet. Now, whether or not that is true is a worthless debate! The more important topic is what to do … Read more