Leading Your Group Dental Practice: Strategy vs Tactics – What’s the Difference?

Everyone I’ve worked with has the desire to transition from a Clinician to a CEO for one common reason: they’re burned out on clinical services and they want to focus on strategy. But what exactly is ”strategy?” If you can’t draw the distinction between vision, goals, strategy, tactics and execution, then chances are they all means the same thing in your organization – and they’re surely not.
Part of being an effective executive is creating clarity, especially when it translates into results. If your group dental practice is failing to deliver on the results you had intended, then time to “push play.”
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3:05 The problem at hand: strategy and tactics are not the same thing
5:50 Connecting Vision, Goals, Strategy, Tactics and Operational Execution
9:50 Some specific examples from my 15 years at Patterson
18:50 Your After Action Items to work on
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