On the road the other day, I listened to a CD by a well-known dental personality speak about foundational values. I speak about this myself, and I’m always reassured that others see the value in establishing a core foundation for anything you build. That’s where the garden comes in! An avid gardener with a passionate …
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OK, so you hate that four letter S word. Particularly in dentistry, health professionals have a huge adverse, knee-jerk re-action to the concept of selling. Yet, when you get right down to it, selling is simply providing a product or service for compensation. It’s not really good or bad, depending on your belief. In the …
Who would have thought of a beautiful artistic use for kudzu?! For those of you unfamiliar, kudzu is an amazingly fast-growing vine (can grow 12”/day!) that was imported from Japan to south eastern US for soil erosion. Kudzu is considered invasive, and covers miles of Georgia country side, its climbing, coiling, trailing, winding perennial vines …
Are you anxious or overwhelmed by ever increasing AI technology, maybe even a bit scared of it? Fortune editor and author, Geoff Colvin, offers encouraging advise for the merging of technology with real human communication skills. The following is an (edited for brevity) excerpt from his book description. What hope will there be for us …
“Beware the Barrenness of a Busy Life” – Socrates Apparently way back in ancient Greece (400 BC) the great thinker Socrates was warning us of the danger of being too busy. What would he think of our multi-tasking, multi-texting, I Phone, I Pad, I Pod, tablet, computer, TV, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tweeting, electronic, digital world …
Blooming Leadership “Worms” he exclaimed – tons of them!” My husband loves to garden, mulch, plant, prune, chop wood. Like me, he enjoys just about anything to do with nature. On a beautiful day he just can’t stay inside. So it came as no surprise when he returned from prepping his garden for spring planting …
Mentor Magic Spring is a magical time for blooming. It is truly magnificent at the daffodil festival at, my all-time favorite nature place, Gibbs Gardens in north Georgia. Hundreds of varieties of daffodils have been planted with blooming schedules covering early, mid and later bloomers over a six week seasonal period. This year, spring has …
Selling is Everybody’s Business In truth, we are all in sales. We spend our lives “selling” thoughts, concepts, things and ideas. Being good at selling and persuading is a critical skill regardless of your business, dentistry included. We all sell. How good are you at it? Successful sellers are those that create winning relationships with …
I love this quote. How often do we think we are educating, but instead we are just regurgitating information, perhaps on deaf ears, wondering if it will ever “sink in”? When you think about it, we are all educators. In addition to the professional teachers and professors of the world we all educate in some …
