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 …
“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 …
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 …
Georgia Aquarium is one of Georgia’s sensational highlights – for locals and tourists alike. Conceived of, and mostly financed by, Bernie Marcus (founder of Home Depot), it was the world’s largest aquarium when it opened in 2005. The aquarium houses more than 100,000 animals, representing 500 species, including beluga whales, hammerhead and whale sharks, huge …
Nothing creates more controversy that selling dentistry. Yet, being adept at selling and persuading is a critical skill in dentistry. How can you sell without feeling like you’re selling? Regardless of your profession, hobby, personal relationships- you are always selling something through relationships and service. How good are you at it? What’s wrong with selling …
Problem: “As technology becomes more awesomely able, what will be the high-value human skills of tomorrow?” Solution: Best new “human” skills “…the most effective groups are those whose members most strongly possess the most essentially, deeply human abilities- empathy above all, social sensitivity, storytelling, collaborating, solving problems together, building relationships.” This is not just …
