By David W. Jackson, DDS, FAGD, IBO enry Ford once said: “I am not the smartest, but I surround myself with competent people.” I think it’s safe to say that Henry Ford had more than a mild degree of success. In fact with the Ford automobile, he rocked the world. We’ve heard in a variety of ways people saying that a leader should surround himself with people better than him. According to leadership literature, successful leaders surround themselves with good people, but great leaders surround themselves with people who are even better than they are. But this is something not so simple to achieve. While I owned two very successful large practices, I never reached my potential. I had great staffs, great labs, etc., but I failed to surround myself with people even better than me. Ironi-cally it took a health crisis in my life 12 years ago to begin to employ this secret and success, I was out of my practices for four weeks – while I was gone I brought sharp folks in – and when I returned the practices had had one of the best months in my dental history. I was a slow learner. But I finally got it! And the last ten years I owned my two offices, they produced the most income. My last decade as owner was incredible. So what does this have to do with Digital cameras? H Fig. 2 www.orthodontics.com Fall 2014 11
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