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There’s Floss and There’s Gourmet Floss

If you’re looking for something different for your patients as stocking fillers this Christmas, some interesting flavours of Floss. They do toothbrushes too, Silk, Badger, Horsehair & a “rinky dinky” little Tongue scraper. (from the “How To Spend It” section of the Weekend FT) Take a look online here.

The Monday Morning Quote #578

“A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” Anon – for S&J, happy voyages.

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??”

Success?

Thanks to Roz Savage for pointing me in the direction of Colin Beavan who asks powerful questions and has made me examine the way I live my life.

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”

The Monday Morning Quote #577

You know what (that) strategy is? 1. Decide what you want. 2. Compare that to where you are. 3. Write down the steps that you need to take on a piece of paper to get you from where you are to where you want to be. 4. Do the work. Anon

The Monday Morning Quote #576

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.” – Dylan Thomas

The Monday Morning Quote #575

“The spider looks for a merchant that doesn’t promote themselves so that he can spin a web across the door and live a life of undisturbed peace.” Mark Twain Real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemons

The Monday Morning Quote #574

“Excellence is the ultimate in selfishness. There’s no higher high than great performance at anything.” Tom Peters

The more things change…

From the editorial in the current BDJ “Each generation believes that it discovers everything for the first time and suffers each difficulty anew. Is it that a certain personality type was (and is still) attracted to dentistry? If so, does this partly explain today’s burnout statistics as much as it did then? ‘In 1913, DormerContinue reading “The more things change…”