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Dental Abstracts

Volume 62, Issue 5, September–October 2017, Pages 254-255
Dental Abstracts

The Front Office
Learning from business leaders

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Background

Orthodontists are faced with the same challenging business world that other dental professionals face and are often as ill-prepared, since dental schools devote less than 2% of their curriculum to practice management. The business world offers some outstanding examples of leadership. The chief executive officers (CEOs) of leading companies demonstrate principles, behavior patterns, and skills that effectively drive their organizations forward. Ten techniques accomplished CEOs use to increase

Techniques

The decisiveness of successful business leaders indicates their ability to assess a situation and confidently make a judgment. The key is categorizing decisions into those that will have little impact, which account for about 98% of them, and those that will have an important impact on the company. Those that have little impact can be made quickly or delegated to subordinates. Those that will dramatically affect the fate of the company can be carefully considered before a confident judgment is

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Levin RP: 10 proven CEO leadership techniques, adapted for orthodontists. Semin Orthod 22:248-250, 2016

Reprints available from RP Levin, Levin Group, Inc, 10 New Plant Ct, Owings Mills, MD

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