What is the chicken without a head routine in a dental practice?
It is the dead giveaway of a practice in trouble. The owner is running flat out all day, room to room, fire to fire, with no time left for anything that actually matters to the future of the business. No time to think, no time to plan, no time to work on the practice instead of just in it. That is the chicken without a head. It comes straight from the volume trap. When your whole model depends on cramming more bodies through the chairs at commodity fees, every hour is consumed and nothing is left for strategy. Compare that to the lean, higher-margin practice where the owner has room to breathe and think. If your days feel like that headless sprint, that is not a time-management flaw to fix with a better calendar. It is a signal the model itself is wrong.
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