Should I focus on practice management instead of marketing to grow? Before you pick one, tell me what you actually mean by management. Standard operating procedures? A binder of courses? Because here's how I see it. Warren Buffett once studied 19 executives he admired and couldn't find a single shared trait, but he summed it up well: great leaders do the right thing, great managers do things the right way. As a dentist you have to do both. You need marketing that creates the right patients, and management that makes the result repeatable. But management starts with self-management, and self-management starts [...]