Top 20 Books to Drive Dental Practice Success

List of Recommended Reading After speaking at the AADOM meeting in Nashville this month, I’ve received several requests for a list of books I recommend. Here is a list of my Top 20 books to drive your practice success:

  1. A Sense of Urgency by John Kotter
  2. Delivery Happiness by Tony Hsieh
  3. Drive by Daniel Pink
  4. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry, Jean Graeves
  5. First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
  6. Fish! A Proven Way To Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen Lundin
  7. Good to Great by Jim Collins
  8. It’s Called Word For a Reason by Larry Winget
  9. Leading Change by John Kotter
  10. Louder Than Words by Bob Kelleher
  11. Power Questions by Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas
  12. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  13. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People  by Dr. Stephen R. Covey*
  14. The Discipline of Market Leaders by Traeacy, Wierseman
  15. The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team by Peter Lencioni
  16. The Go-Getter by Peter Kyne
  17. The Hundred Percenters  by Michael Murphy
  18. The Kindness Revolution by Ed Horrell
  19. The Secrets of Six Figure Women by Barbara Stanny (this is for men too!)
  20. Wooden – A Lifetime of Observations

*This has been on my reading list for over 20 years ~ and I’m not done with it yet!

Deja Vu?

Employee engagement may be the biggest buzzword in talent management today and yet it remains more elusive than ever. Studies show that only 29% of employees are truly engaged in the workplace. For a practice with six team members, that means you’ve only got the hearts and heads of 2 of those 6 team members. It’s no wonder that 70% of change initiatives fail and most managers suffer from what I call ‘Meeting Déjà vu.” If you’ve ever been in a team meeting and wondered to yourself, “didn’t we just have this meeting a few months ago… why are we here again?, you too are experiencing ‘Meeting Déjà vu.”