I tried, I really did, I blocked my ears, turned my phone and other distractions off, reduced the sceptic factor setting as low as it would go and concentrated. The I came to some of the language used and the “mummy knows best” tone. HEE (NHS Leadership Academy) to develop and pilot a self-help, teamContinue reading “Specialist subjects?”
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The Monday Morning Quote #482
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou Thanks to my neighbour in Fahoura, Walt, for reminding me of this, (PSyou can find good optometry people in West Cork too).
The Monday Morning Quote #481
“Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else’s. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else’s journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honour your uniqueness in this way?” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Roy Lilley speaks…sense.
I often disagree with Roy Lilley (especially when he discusses dentistry) but his newsletter today makes a few points well, particularly these. …the only way to achieve that is to de-pompous the GMC and NMC, strip them back to maintaining a register and stop hounding clinicians with all the masonic, legal palaver of hearings… CliniciansContinue reading “Roy Lilley speaks…sense.”
The Product Is Not Enough
From the always stimulating Bob Lefsetz – his main thing is music but the lessons apply to most businesses (including my own!) If you build it they will not come. Your challenge is getting noticed. So you may be sitting at home, in your beautiful house, with your beautiful wife, asking me…DIDN’T YOU SAY JUSTContinue reading “The Product Is Not Enough”
The Monday Morning Quote #480
“The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression”. Sir John Harvey Jones
…same sh*t, different profession…
I write mostly about what happens to dentists and the business of dentistry…but let’s not forget that the UK is a pretty lousy place for a lot of professions at the moment, especially the ones that put patient care at their core. This from the BMJ via reestheskin “Why do doctors feel the need toContinue reading “…same sh*t, different profession…”
The Monday Morning Quote #479
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” Stephen Hawking
GDPR = Got Desperate People Rich(er)
Chicken Licken says the sky has fallen – #94 Lee Gilbert’s thoughts on GDPR, “It seems every type of company from Accountants, HR Advisory firms, Law Practices, IT companies, Greengrocers and Candle Stick makers… have been jumping on the band wagon of running seminar’s on the subject without truly understanding (or having read in someContinue reading “GDPR = Got Desperate People Rich(er)”
So many pants on fire…
The lies that have been distributed are so many and so persistent that, arguably, fiction is the only way to tell the truth. John Le Carre in an interview in the New York Times with Mel Gubben – January 7th 2004, quoted in Spione I wonder what he would say now?
The Incisal Edge 