We are hard at work making plans for the upcoming 28th ADA New Dentist Conference. The conference offers a full day of leadership programming, and that’s why this post by Kaan Turnali over at Forbes caught our attention. He recaps several famous leaders and their personal qualities — they inspire, they motivate, they instill confidence: But it’s easy… Read More »
We’ve written before about using employee agreements to clarify expectations between the practice and the dental team. So we were interested when we read on The Build Network about a corporate strategist who developed a one-page user’s manual to help his new employees understand how to work with him effectively. Check out the original post for a series… Read More »
Does this scenario sound familiar? At the end of a day full of making decisions and answering questions, someone asks what you want for dinner and you realize I have no idea what I would like to eat for dinner. The term for this is decision fatigue and it refers to the idea that decision making is like… Read More »
Big dreams are great, but if you don’t create space in your life for making progress toward them, then they’re fantasies, not goals. That’s a quote from productivity expert Laura Vanderkam who goes on to write: Build an accountability system–a friend, a group, an app–that will make failure uncomfortable. If you’ve got a run scheduled for Tuesday morning,… Read More »
The Kansas City Barbeque Society reports that Kansas City has more barbecue restaurants per capita than any other American city. Apart from the delightful fact that there is such a thing as a barbecue society, this information is important to you for two reasons: A person who has enjoyed some barbecue is a person who will soon be… Read More »
Preparing for the Worst — Disaster Recovery We have been working on the next issue of ADA New Dentist News and one of the pieces is about the importance of disaster preparedness. An electrical outage is usually just an inconvenience. But if the power was down for an extended period in your community, would that impact… Read More »