You can diagnose an obscure parasite in minutes. You can perform a delicate surgery with instinctive precision. Your clinical hands are steady, your medical mind is sharp.
But ask yourself about “fair market rent,” equity allocation, or a cap-ex forecast, and your confidence falters.
Read MoreRemember your opening day? The clean smell, the hum of excitement, the pure hope of building a place to heal pets.
Now, look around.
You feel like you’re pulling the whole team along. Rules are ignored. No one's sure who should do what.
Read MoreYou know the dream. It plays in your mind during the drive to work.
You are in your brand-new, thoughtfully designed dentistry wing, and a rescue dog is getting a pain-free root canal with the latest digital imaging.
Read MoreYou’re reviewing the schedule for the third time this week, trying to plug the gaps.
A new grad’s name is there, but their training shifts feel like a weight on your already packed calendar.
Read MoreSame practice.
Different approaches.
No one’s breaking the rules, but no one’s following the same ones either.
That’s where inconsistency starts.
Read MoreThis is where many practice leaders get stuck.
Build it all… or don’t start at all.
But there’s a simpler way to approach this.
Here’s what I tell my vets: “Want a full rehab system with pool and treadmill? Let’s try converting one room for rehab first and see if it’s any use for your patients.”
Read MoreShe’d only been here for two weeks, but she could already feel the weight of the double standard.
An hour earlier, a junior vet missed a stitch, adding 20 minutes to a surgery.
The response? “It happens. You’ll get it next time.”
Read MoreIn a busy practice, tensions rise fast, and before you know it, words fly that no one can take back.
Great leadership doesn’t mean you never get upset or frustrated. Great leadership is determined by what you do when you are.
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