by fineco | Apr 15, 2020 | Business growth, Compliance, Finance
Over the past couple of weeks we have been solidifying our clients’ positions with our Stabilise/Protect/Regenerate strategy. Although there is no panacea, a proactive approach has taken the sting out of the situation for most. With things ‘settled’ it has allowed us...
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...
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...
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...