The fact finding tour associated with the government initiated independent review came to Bristol yesterday. Jimmy Steele is an amiable host who, without doubt, has worked extremely hard on finding information and listening to opinions from all involved in the current mess that is NHS dentistry. The audience was probably 20 or so in number withContinue reading “Professor Jimmy Steel in Bristol”
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Malcolm Gladwell on the Beeb
Author of The Tipping Point, Blink & Outliers interviewed on the BBC. 7746488.stm
Seth does it again – Do you have customers or members?
Do you have customers or members? If you changed your model to have members instead, what would that look like? If people had to subscribe, or be admitted, or apply… and if you had to please the membership, not convert new strangers. The web likes businesses that have members. sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/do-you-have-customers-or-members.html
The Monday Morning Quote #40
“We are what we repeatedly do” Aristotle
The Arizona Weekend Read – 2
The Damned United by David Peace another book nominally about sport but really about so much more. David Peace has become one of the leading contemporary British novelists with his Red Riding Quartet. This book first published in 2006 and recently filmed with Michael Sheen in the main role is, to quote the author, “anotherContinue reading “The Arizona Weekend Read – 2”
The Monday Morning Quote #39
“Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.” Sydney Smith (19th Century English writer and clergyman)
The Arizona Weekend Read – 1
I have spent a disorientating weekend flying and attempting to become acclimatised to the heat in Arizona. I’m here for the Kolbe Professional Growth Seminar of which more later in the week. One of the advantages of long haul flights (and I can’t think of many) is the chance to catch up with some reading.Continue reading “The Arizona Weekend Read – 1”
The Incisal Edge 