Ask George | Are You Making These 3 Leadership Mistakes In Your Dental Practice Management Systems?
Shared Practices | Your Dental Roadmap through Practice Ownership
Dr. George Hariri | Shared Practices Network
4.9 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this masterclass episode of Ask George, Dr. George Hariri pulls back the curtain on the "invisible" side of dental practice management—the leadership dynamics that dictate your take-home pay and your team’s sanity. For most, the associate to owner transition is a shock to the system because dental school teaches you how to prep a crown, not how to lead a human being. George provides a survival guide for the future owner, breaking down the essential shift from clinical technician to high-level CEO.
True dental practice management isn't about micro-managing every tray setup; it is about strategic resource allocation. George identifies the "Goodwill Bank Account" concept, explaining how leaders must deposit trust through leading by example before they can withdraw effort during high-stress growth phases. We dive deep into the "unspoken culture" of a practice—what you tolerate becomes your standard. If your dental business ownership journey feels like a constant uphill battle with staff, the bottleneck is likely your relational leadership, not your clinical skill.
This episode covers the "Vision Avatars" necessary for sustainable dental practice growth, helping you decide if you are building a productive solo or a mega group. George also breaks down the "Operational Rhythm"—the cadence of huddles and meetings that transform dental practice management from a reactive chore into a proactive engine for dental practice profitability. By the end of this episode, you will understand how to audit your own self-leadership, set non-negotiable standards for what you tolerate, and empower an office manager to handle the details so you can focus on entrepreneurship for dentists. Whether you are currently in the middle of acquisitions or just starting your roadmap, this is the blueprint for leading a team that actually wants to follow you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Shared Practices podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | Today we are doing another episode of Ask George. |
| 0:08.0 | And on our episode today, what we're going to talk about is leadership. |
| 0:11.7 | And leadership is a really loaded topic. |
| 0:14.1 | That's not necessarily something that's like a one size fits all or also really something |
| 0:20.1 | that's a singular topic. And so we're going to kind of |
| 0:22.1 | break it up into pieces and really digest a huge topic, which is, you know, leading your business, |
| 0:27.7 | leading your practice, and ultimately leading your team to success. And so this is a topic that |
| 0:33.0 | there's many different ways you can tackle it. You can talk about the vision. You could talk about |
| 0:37.7 | strategy. You could talk about management of people. You could talk about culture. You could talk |
| 0:42.3 | about development of people. And you could talk about operational leadership. Like there's just so |
| 0:47.1 | many different aspects to leadership. And so I want to just walk through all the different areas |
| 0:53.4 | and try to use examples where it's going to be |
| 0:56.8 | helpful for you as a dentist who's in a practice leading your team to ultimately get to your goals. |
| 1:02.9 | And so I think the first thing that I want to talk about, which is like self-leadership or introspection. |
| 1:07.7 | It starts within you. And so there's a few things that you need to be clear on within |
| 1:11.5 | yourself that will allow you to be the best leader possible. The first thing is who you are, |
| 1:17.4 | what you like, and, you know, the things that make you, you know, you might think like, |
| 1:22.8 | why does that matter? Well, if you're trying to be somebody, you're not, you're not going to be |
| 1:27.1 | as good or as authentic or you're not going to connect with people as genuinely as if you're trying to bring out the best version of yourself. And so when I think of leadership, I really think about, okay, well, we're going to take the best version of me and it's going to be an embodiment of who I am, but it's going to be that embodiment |
| 1:46.2 | of who I am transposed upon my practice and my teams to get my goals. And so let me just use a |
| 1:51.2 | couple of examples. So I, I'll just, I'm going to speak on myself and I'm just doing this |
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