This is an easy, enjoyable and intriguing read. It has great relevance to every day life for anyone who deals with people which I suppose is all of us in clinical practice. This is Larry Brown’s review from Amazon: In Blink Malcolm Gladwell, explores the extraordinarily perceptive and deceptive power of the sub-conscious mind. Gladwell’s majorContinue reading “The Weekend Read: 3. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Top Ten Tips for Worried Investors
This is a link to the blog created by Ray Prince & Graeme Urwin who are part of Rutherford Wilkinson in Newcastle, they have great expertise in financial planning, especially for doctors & dentists, and are straightforward no-BS people who give excellent service. http://www.medicaldentalfs.com/318/are-you-worried-about-your-investments/
Pit Stop Innovation – The Handover
http://www.e-myth.com/cs/user/print/post/innovation-operation-pit-stop This is not new research and has, no doubt, surfaced several times in the newspapers since it was first published. It highlights one of the key aspects of any sort of patient / customer journey – the handover. No footballing team would dream of starting a game without practicing how to pass the ball,Continue reading “Pit Stop Innovation – The Handover”
The Monday Morning Quote #4
Two quotes from winners of the Nobel prize for Literature. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Samuel Beckett) “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm..” (Sir Winston Churchill)
The Weekend Read: 2. Building The Happiness Centred Business
Paddi Lund (the one on the left in the Scottish T-Shirt) is a “crazy Australian dentist” who has become founder of the greatest underground movement in business history. Only available from Solutions Press on Brisbane, Building The Happiness Centred Business is possibly the best book for Dentists (or any aspiring business owners). It’s certainly theContinue reading “The Weekend Read: 2. Building The Happiness Centred Business”
Three Insights
One of my favourite writers on the subject of solo entrepreneurship is Molly Gordon www.mollygordon.com This is from a recent ezine and I hope will help those who have doubts about their marketing ever bearing fruit. Three Insights 1) You never know when a seed you’ve planted will take root. Your job as an Accidental EntrepreneurContinue reading “Three Insights”
Website of the week
Here’s a great website from a fabulous new practice in Hatfield. Harry Singh has put his money where his mouth is and launched aesthetics. http://www.aesthetics-dentistry.com He has learned the lessons of the business of dentistry faster than anyone else that I know. He knows that it’s the team that make the experience and he hasContinue reading “Website of the week”
The Monday Morning Quote #3
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. He who strives valiantly;Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #3”
The Weekend Read: 1. How to win friends and influence people.
The book that The Guardian calls: “The grandaddy of all management books”. How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie. I am amazed that there are people who haven’t yet read this slim volume. Published first in 1937 it is as relevant today as it was then. I regret that I didn’t botherContinue reading “The Weekend Read: 1. How to win friends and influence people.”
Work View
I am very fortunate that this is the view from my workplace in Cork….it wasn’t quite so good in a force 7 gale at 3.30am but the elements were wonderful to enjoy from within.
