by Chad Fleming | Sep 7, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Practice Growth, Pursue Growth, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
As an optometric practice owner, do you find the amount of compensation you are paying out is pushing the high end of absurd? In his book Good Profits, billionaire businessman Charles Koch writes that incentives should be solely centered on the value an individual...
by Chad Fleming | Jul 27, 2016 | Career Options, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Managing the optometric practice is one of the most difficult pieces of the CEO puzzle. The people you are trying to manage are sometimes emotional, unpredictable, and fickle. Sometimes they leave. At times people leave for good reasons, or situations that are out of...
by Chad Fleming | Jul 13, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Student to OD, Time Management, Uncategorized
Right now we have two staff members who have decided to make optometry their life profession and are applying to optometry school. These future ODs are excited, and their excitement is contagious to the rest of the staff, even the sometimes complacent and burned out...
by Chad Fleming | Jun 15, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Finding the Right Practice, Student to OD, Uncategorized
When you chose your career path in optometry, you might have been unaware of the many ramifications. You are now at risk of being responsible for someone going blind. You must be committed to life-long learning. If you decided to buy an optometry practice, you have...
by Chad Fleming | May 25, 2016 | Career Options, Day in the Life, Manage with Excellence, Management, Staff Management, Time Management, Uncategorized
Understood rules of engagement among competing optometry practices lay the groundwork for professionalism and ethical business practices. For our purposes, I define competitors as any company within a 50-mile radius that practices optometry, opticianary, or...
by Chad Fleming | May 18, 2016 | Buy/Sell, Career Options, Day in the Life, Time Management, Uncategorized
Timing is key to the best investments, yet most investors will tell you not to try to time the stock market. Waiting for the perfect moment to sell your practice might mean missing out on opportunities that could actually help you more financially in the long run....