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Atomic Habits & Your Medical Practice

What Makes You Tick? Using a “Nuclear” Framework For Improvement Do you ever wonder why when it comes to making changes in our lives we tend to fail more than we succeed? It’s a reality for us as individuals as well as organizations of all shapes and sizes.  To counter this,

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Bottlenecks in the Medical Practice

We often think of bottlenecks in terms of traffic jams (and the associated “rubbernecking” when drivers pass an accident) or when you want to empty a bottle that’s full of coins and they get stuck in the neck of the bottle. Hence the term. There are expert engineers whose careers are devoted

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Hello! The Phone Is Not Dead

Amidst all the trends in medical practices to create efficiency, the telephone seems like the easiest target. Starting with phone trees asking us to “press 1 if we want X, press 2 if we want Y,” this drive to better productivity is, in some ways, counterproductive. We see this all the

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Bathrooms in the Medical Practice

I had a good chuckle when coming across this headline in a recent article, “The Most Exciting Part of Dining Out Is…the Bathroom?”  Yes, restaurants are seeking new ways to differentiate that extend beyond the food or dining room décor. Themes ranging from Dolly Parton to Iranian films to Studio 54 are

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The Service Recovery Paradox Put to the Ultimate Test

Now that we are just past the airline debacle that Southwest delivered for Christmas, some are wondering if the airline – my favorite – will survive. The disruption at the “most wonderful time of the year” affected millions of people, from employees to travelers and their families they could not spend

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Why Business Cards Are Still Important in a Medical Practice

The business card is dead. Long live the business card! Much has been written about the decline and obsolescence of the traditional business card. Who needs to carry business cards when you can share contact information wirelessly between devices? The trend towards going paperless with this traditional business interaction seemed to

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