My calendar is completely clear today – a rare event indeed. Have you ever had one of those days where you have so much time to yourself that you don’t quite know where to start with it? In the event, my day begins with a second 10 km run – this time down to Port
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The tall poppy syndrome describes aspects of a culture where people of high status are resented, attacked, cut down, strung up or criticised because they have been classified as superior to their peers. (a Wikipedia definition). So here’s a dark side to the Australian dental culture. There are some dentists who are ready and waiting
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Before we start – this is a story about a truly awful hotel – but it’s important to understand that nobody is to blame. When you travel on business as much as I do, you realise that maybe once or twice a year you are going to arrive in a hotel, walk into your room
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Time to pack on Monday morning as I’ll be leaving Sydney later in the day. My final day is spent with Lawrence Neville and the team at Spa Dental in the city’s Central Business District (CBD). I’ll not go into the detail here as that’s confidential but suffice to say that I sat down with
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There’s something very humbling about feeling nervous before a new workshop begins. I know the material inside out but, no matter how many times you deliver a presentation and in how many places, there’s a slight attack of imposter syndrome before you go on stage. “What will I do if they don’t like me, if
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