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Power Thought: Only The Best Practices
Spouses grow to be more alike over time... You believe that don't you? I did, but a new study puts my belief into question. It somewhat contradicts an older study (and another one) that determined that long-time lovers tend to grow to look alike.
What these studies point out is that we tend to choose people that are like us. At least in the West. Imagine Yenta the matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof right in the middle of us picking our mates. In light of those studies, it seems that close companionship was not as common in the matchmaker days. People made due because the culture inserted a matchmaker into the middle of the match. I guess the extra weight and friction were tolerated.
Seems kind of crazy in today's world: using a third party to make a match... yet it happens all the time. Young men and women, looking for a match, employing a matchmaker... right here in America. I'm not talking about marriage here, I'm talking partners... especially dental partners. New dentists don't realize that brokers are just like Yenta... keeping the potential partners (or buyer/seller) separated. Senior dentists feel too busy to look for buyers or partners for themselves. Trust doesn't form, and close partnerships never really form.
If only there were easy to follow process for new dentists to find dental practices for sale. If only there were a way for senior dentists to find newer dentists that could partner with or buy their practice. There is. Ditch the matchmaking broker. Find your own dental practices for sale, buyers or partners. The studies above apply here. You will have better outcomes if you transition yourself.
First step is to create a profile that others can use to compare against their profile. Then send that profile to potential partners. Then have them create one just like it to compare against yours. You can create a free one at my website. One part of the profile is a personality profile. It's more than those quick little tests you find on the Internet. Here are the results when I took the test. By the way, the numbers don't mean as much by themselves as comparing them against a potential match.
The take-a-way: do your own matchmaking... It's not that hard, and will save the selling dentist many, many thousands of dollars. We've got several free tools and connections to legal and accounting professionals to help you at OnlyTheBestPractices.
