You don’t need finance to survive shutdown

by fineco | Apr 2, 2020 | Business growth, Finance, Performance reporting, Planning

Panic can lead us into self-destruction. When someone scared of water thinks they’re drowning they burn precious energy and oxygen flailing and hyperventilating. In the knowledge that this wild state is potentially fatal to others too, lifeguards are trained to...

My order out of chaos graph™

by Guest | Mar 11, 2020 | Business growth, Leadership, Movers and shakers, Performance reporting, Planning

Working as a consultant to dental practice owners I have become convinced of the value of a tool that I created during my MBA. For want of a better name I’ve called it the Abstraction Model. I’ve seen it make a difference for practice owners who engage...

My first year: best and worst decisions as a principal

by Zac Fine | Feb 19, 2020 | Business growth, Leadership, Movers and shakers, Self care, Treatment co-ordinators

Dr Jonny Cochrane at The Bristol Dental Practice is about to complete his first year as an owner. He’s 31. His learning curve has been extreme as a first timer because he’s gone big, fast. Some things went wrong, but he’s come out stronger. Many...

The man who can smash your associates’ glass ceiling

by Zac Fine | Feb 12, 2020 | Business growth, Industry trends, Leadership, Movers and shakers, Workshop

Michael Sernik is a one man global revolution in dentist-patient communication. His technique goes to the heart of what usually frustrates serious practice growth: the limited ability of associates to break through an average daily yield (ADY) of around £3k. The...

Your biggest challenge for the next decade. And your solution

by Guest | Feb 5, 2020 | Business growth, Industry trends, Leadership, Movers and shakers, Workshop

For me, as a management consultant, the salient feature of the past 10 years in dentistry has been the end of the easystreet sole trader lifestyle. Today practice owners must run proper businesses, with all the attendant responsibilities and opportunities for scalable...

How to survive the 20s

by Jonathan Fine | Jan 29, 2020 | Business growth, Industry trends, Leadership, Movers and shakers, Workshop

At the back end of last year the Fine and Hive teams spent a day in a beachside hotel wondering about the next 10 years in dentistry. We split into groups and brainstormed the main themes, which came out something like this:     Private equity money will continue...