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7 components of the entrepreneurial mindset

7 components of the entrepreneurial mindset

by Jonathan Fine | Sep 19, 2018 | Business growth, Leadership, Planning

This is another excerpt from chapter 2 of Moonwalking For Dentists. Email [email protected] if you’d like a free pdf of the full chapter or a copy of the book with a 25% discount. One: Risk The overriding driver behind making business, or indeed life...
Sam Waley-Cohen: Core Equity will help us scale

Sam Waley-Cohen: Core Equity will help us scale

by Zac Fine | Jul 25, 2018 | Business growth, Leadership, Movers and shakers

After mistaken reports of a £300m buyout by Southern Dental, Portman Dental Care has refinanced, with Core Equity Holdings acquiring Livingbridge’s stake. I caught up with CEO Sam Waley-Cohen, who has his shoulder at the wheel again after a short break. Sam, how are...
They’re key to growth, but why do 25% of business managers in dentistry fail?

They’re key to growth, but why do 25% of business managers in dentistry fail?

by Jonathan Fine | Jun 20, 2018 | Business growth, Costs, Leadership, Performance reporting, Recruitment

If you’ve ever appointed a business manager, were they or are they effective? By effective I mean do they or did they actually deliver the objectives you set them? I can honestly say that it’s the single hardest appointment we advise our clients on. You can do all the...
Coping with isolation and staying mentally fit

Coping with isolation and staying mentally fit

by Zac Fine | May 16, 2018 | Leadership, Mental health

We’re seeing a clear need among practice owners to accept that taboo feelings of stress, isolation and self-doubt — and much darker moods — are really very normal. There’s a need to acknowledge these emotions when they arise because then they can be dealt with before...
Don’t do a Jamie and expand whatever

Don’t do a Jamie and expand whatever

by Jonathan Fine | Apr 4, 2018 | Business growth, Leadership, Planning

Dental business blogs — this one included — always go on about business growth being de facto a good thing. But rapid expansion without strategic planning can be counterproductive. Jamie Oliver’s misadventures are a perfect example. In February one of our clients...
Overwhelmed? 4 emergency steps to prioritise tasks, fast

Overwhelmed? 4 emergency steps to prioritise tasks, fast

by Jonathan Fine | Mar 28, 2018 | Leadership, Mental health, Planning

Whenever I feel overwhelmed by conflicting priorities (which doesn’t happen that often) I use the technique below. I recently shared it with a client who had moved into overload and they found it helpful, so my offer is to perhaps file it as a resource for the next...
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My order out of chaos graph™

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....

Coronavirus: how to prepare for best and worst case scenarios

Five weeks ago my old pal and client of 10 years Tom Keppel rang and said, "Jonny, I’m getting really worried about this coronavirus thing, I think it could really harm my practice." Tom’s...

Are the sleeping corporate giants waking up?

In a sign the largest group in the UK is embracing retail philosophy, Mydentist launched its first 'Mysmile pod' in a shopping centre in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, this week. Another one is...

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My first year: best and worst decisions as a principal

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....

The man who can smash your associates’ glass ceiling

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...

Your biggest challenge for the next decade. And your solution

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...

How to survive the 20s

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,...

ASA bid to freeze Botox posts on social media

January 31st. Tax deadline. It's also the day the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) starts going after Botox ads on social media in the UK. It will be pulling down posts that can be...

Is rudeness crippling your business?

When we're rude to colleagues, the evidence is overwhelming that we perform worse and this is particularly the case when we're doing something complex in a team, like dentistry. In medicine...

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