by Zac Fine | Feb 14, 2019 | Mental health, Planning, Self care
A punchy little message with the subject line “Divorce” grabbed my attention when it landed in my inbox recently. Maybe it’s the time of year — I know a few couples who hit the skids in January, a notorious time for marriage breakdown. And I see that in a list of the...
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...
by Jonathan Fine | Sep 12, 2018 | Mental health, Planning
I’ve been flicking through a book I published with Simon Hocken in 2014 called Moonwalking For Dentists: How to win big in dentistry. I was expecting to wince but actually it’s aged pretty well, although it’s a bit wordy. We were bang on the money with the “16 agents...
by Zac Fine | May 9, 2018 | Admin, Compliance, Mental health, NHS, Planning, Retirement
When financial or social pressure leads us to behave in ways that we don’t agree with, we are guaranteed to end up miserable. Or worse. In 2013 the BDJ published a letter from a dentist who took his own life after problems with his Primary Care Trust. In it Paul Hood...
by Jonathan Fine | Apr 18, 2018 | Disposals, Exit plan, Planning, Retirement, Tax, Wealth management
The average dentist currently works to age 74 according to Practice Exchange, the online job and course board. It’s an extrapolation from US figures that show average retirement age for dentists in 2001 as 64.8, rising to 69.3 in 2011. But it feels wrong. Granted, the...
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...
