Bitcoin is either gambling or it’s taxable, not both
You may not have heard from them since they watched much of those gains drain away overnight. Or was it you? My sense is most dentists are too risk averse. …
Being a leader is harder for dentists
Anyone buying a dental practice is under pressure to create revenue quickly to service the debt and start paying it down. …
The mirage of effortless success
The curse of talent is well known to psychologists, and it’s overrated as a contributor to success. …
Technicians struggle to see business sense, that’s what your BM’s for
The BM role has three components: define the company's growth plan, coordinate and execute growth, and optimise the systems. …
2 sites better than 1?
If you were looking for a sure fire way of ensuring that an investment didn't pay off, but instead depreciated rapidly, a second car is a very good idea. …
How to create a disillusioned taxpayer
Some changes have just been made in Scotland that tell us something important about the way our financial lives are organised (a better word might be disorganised) by the state. …
Facts are wobbly unless your philosophy is fixed
Let’s take those three statements about your hygienist again and frame them in a radically different business philosophy and strategy. …
How did you fare in the so-called decade of austerity?
A deluge of technological innovations are coming our way and they will keep transforming consumer behaviour like this in ways that we can’t imagine. …
Demographics: be who your patients need you to be
Put simply, you want a brand that oozes values that are attractive to your audience. …
Your lion killing team don’t want to herd
The most important thing you need as a leader of a differentiator is a clear vision. …
Now or later? The zero sum game of risk
If you were going to start a dental business next year, would you start one from scratch or buy one that’s already up and running? Which is riskier? I know which one looks riskier. …
Why do you do what you do?
In a not too distant past, here at Hive we undertook a development day designed to focus our purpose. …
Digested: The outlandishly bland Budget
At Hive we believe we have a duty to you, our dear reader, to report the salient facts about these national events, insofar as there are any. …
Friction costs your business more than you will ever imagine
When I think about the things that our clients want to do, I wonder if there are ways that we can make life easier for them by taking out friction. …
Long live the marketing funnel
The truth is most of the watching going on is by people watching to see if anyone else is watching them. …
Do you take the easy decisions?
The dangerous thing and the great thing about being your own boss is that you don’t have to answer to anyone. …
Leaders need to spot gorillas
A business will soon hit trouble if it counts the passes but doesn’t spot the gorilla, or if it clocks the gorilla but not the passes. …
