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 …
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 …
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 …
