Prologue
My Story - Where I Was and Where I’m Going
Six female dentists at one table spanning ages 30 to 60, and every stage of a career between them.
The Issue
Winter 2015
Contents
Getting Started
The Fourteen Million Dollar Decision
Nobody hands you the form, but you answer the question anyway: fourteen million dollars extra at retirement, or someone else assuming control of your profession.
Getting Started
Develop a Five-Year Plan to Ensure Long- term Success
Buy-in, purchase, start-up, expansion, sale: financial needs change at every stage.
Getting Started
Can You Really Profit By Design When Planning an Office?
You earned your credentials through intent, and an office plan deserves the same. Where intent and effect meet in design, starting with delegating to professional guidance.
Business Fundamentals
The Critical Factors of the Business of Dentistry
The success of a practice is in direct proportion to the success of its systems. What to do about the parts of ownership dental school never covered, at any stage of a career.
Business Fundamentals
Top 5 Ways for an Associate to Build a Practice Within a Practice and Succeed!
Five ways an associate builds a practice inside someone else's. Honest questions about whether your team is cohesive, goal-oriented, and comfortable with the status quo.
Practice Builders
What Can Organized Dentistry do for a New Dentist, Professionally and Personally?
Thomas P. Hinman convened the first meeting strictly for educational purposes in Atlanta in 1911, and asked attendees to take it home.
Practice Builders
What Team Members LOVE - HATE About Their Jobs
Staff wrote unsigned index cards saying what they liked and disliked about the dentists they worked for. The favourable and unfavourable replies, compiled and quoted.
The Power To Succeed
What Kind of Culture Will You Create?
Culture is a shared set of expectations about how people relate to each other and to patients.