Category Archives: Vision

Rees’s Reads #1 – Setting The Table by Danny Meyer

Setting The Table – The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business This book should be compulsory reading for everyone who works in any business that serves customers face to face. I believe it is essential for any dentist looking to differentiate themselves – especially from corporate practices. Danny Meyer is a restauranteur. The CEO ofContinue reading “Rees’s Reads #1 – Setting The Table by Danny Meyer”

Playing the “What If” game.

I delivered my presentation, “Is Dentistry Making You Sick?” in Gloucestershire a couple of days ago and introduced a game that I suggest participants play with their teams and partners. It’s called “What If” and the rules are simple in the extreme, you come up with the most unlikely thing that you can imagine andContinue reading “Playing the “What If” game.”

The Weekend Read – What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark H McCormack

First published in 1984, I see that it is still one of the top sellers in the Business sections of airport book shops. Its very longevity proves that it either must have something going for it or because it has always been popular it must be good. Well you pays your money and you takesContinue reading “The Weekend Read – What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark H McCormack”

The Monday Morning Quote #388

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labour and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determineContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #388”

The Weekend Read – The Management of Dental Practice by Edward Samson

This book was published in 1969 and described as inheriting the character but not the anatomy from Samson’s (pictured left) 1931 book “Progressive Practice”. All I am going to say much about either book is that, although dated in some ways, much of their teaching is as relevant today as it was when they firstContinue reading “The Weekend Read – The Management of Dental Practice by Edward Samson”

Desert Island Discs – John Timpson

I am a great fan of Desert Island Discs, it’s required listening – usually via the podcast. I was lucky enough to meet its creator Roy Plomley more than 35 years ago and found him to be as urbane and charming in the flesh as he sounded on air. A great man for asking questionsContinue reading “Desert Island Discs – John Timpson”

Lefsetz on Founders

From The Lefsetz Letter – March 13th. I don’t always agree with what Bob Lefsetz writes but I enjoy what he says and usually the way that he says it. Founders Don’t take no for an answer. But when their product is in the marketplace to no acclaim, to little adoption, they pivot. He whoContinue reading “Lefsetz on Founders”

Why?

I love Dog Savage’s “Savage Chickens” cartoons. I saw this one on the day after Simon Tucker’s excellent presentation at The BDA Western Counties Young Dentists Conference where he referenced Simon Sinek’s “Start With Why”. This came at the end of a week where I had insisted/suggested that three of my clients watch Sinek’s presentation.Continue reading “Why?”