Author Archives: Alun Rees

Oh the places I will go – Part 2 – The world at my feet – in pieces.

1st January 1991. The world at my feet – in bits.  A lot can happen in 28 months. After the rapid success of the first practice. Hubris set in and in October 1989, flush with arrogance, I opened on a second site. This time I spent (borrowed) big time. Growth was slower, I was spreadContinue reading “Oh the places I will go – Part 2 – The world at my feet – in pieces.”

Oh the places I will go Part 1 – The world at my feet

8th September 1988. Oh the places I will go! This was it. My first patient in my own practice. An adult, a female, she arrived with her mother. Neither of them could remember her date of birth. She insisted that no dentist had ever taken a medical history before or taken X-rays or looked atContinue reading “Oh the places I will go Part 1 – The world at my feet”

What to learn from aircraft??

Earl Weiner Among them: Every device creates its own opportunity for human error. Exotic devices create exotic problems. Digital devices tune out small errors while creating opportunities for large errors. Invention is the mother of necessity. Some problems have no solution. It takes an airplane to bring out the worst in a pilot. Whenever youContinue reading “What to learn from aircraft??”

The Fish Rots From The Head

“il pesce marcisce dalla testa” – The Fish Rots From The Head The final quarter of 2018 saw me speaking throughout the UK on “Leadership and Management”. In preparation I examined the characteristics of both, the differences between them and where they overlap. This exercise meant that I had to take stock of some of theContinue reading “The Fish Rots From The Head”