The Elephant Theory and Me-Time: Role in Decision Making in a Dentist?s Life

If wisdom is a leadership trait, decision making is a skill, which all of us need to acquire quickly and imbibe it well too because manyatimes we face this scenario in our practice when certain quick decisions are to be made and then we have to stick with them, come what may. We have to train our mind in such a way that we make fast calculated and on the spot decisions. It won’t always end on the right side for sure and we will lose some but we shall gain also many, in the longer run. Every clinic or dentist needs to make one or many decisions at one point or the other as a part of managerial process of managing oneself or the clinic. Decisions can be with vested (read: personal) interest or made in the best interest of the clinic as such. In both the cases, the individual (owner) is the winner, if the roll of dice turns his way. For that matter, decisions are eventually made to lighten the way forward. The process of decision making is complex and makes the professionals of medical/dental origin, i.e. us to don a different attire (or a hat) altogether.