Oct 31, 2018
Two Step Decision-making is this simple:
Step One – Whoever has to execute/carry out the decision should make it.
Step Two – Whoever is affected/impacted by the decision should have input.
Yes, it is utterly simple, but we have found that in many companies steeped in Factory System hierarchy it takes a few...
Oct 28, 2018
Understanding why you are doing what you are doing, and how to allow it to pull you through adversity are both essential to establishing your culture, and thus grow your practice. Your BIG "why" needs to be something that can never be checked off as completed. Once something is checked off, you are done with...
Oct 24, 2018
Why Practices Fail and Why Yours Shouldn’t
Most experts say fifty percent of businesses fail in the first five years and eighty percent within ten years. Don’t believe them. It’s not true. Very few businesses truly “fail,” probably fewer than five percent.
What really happens? The practice owner gets tired...
Oct 21, 2018
The host of the Dental Heroes Podcast, Paul Etchison, DDS joins us to help understand how important the Participation Age is to our practices. Ask yourself these questions:
1. Does everyone know what our values are, and could they
describe them?
2. Do they talk about it? DO they bring them up to me, and others
within...
Oct 17, 2018
The Mission-Centered Organization
This is the simplest, most impactful and practical principle in the quiver of Participation Age arrows.
The Mission Centered Organization
We should teach everyone that “The mission is the only boss we all have.”
Everything lines up when you fully embrace that simple,...