Ask George: The CEO Survival Guide for Resetting Your Dental Practice Ownership
Shared Practices | Your Dental Roadmap through Practice Ownership
Dr. George Hariri | Shared Practices Network
4.9 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Ask George, Dr. George Hariri guides you through "The Ownership Reset," a strategic process designed to align your dental practice ownership with your long-term life goals. As we head into 2026, George emphasizes that successful dental practice ownership requires more than clinical skill; it requires a clear vision and a refined sense of direction. Whether you are a productive solo or looking to scale into a mega group, this episode serves as a survival guide to help you identify your "vision avatar" and move from being a clinician to a true CEO.
George breaks down the clinical entrepreneur spectrum, identifying five distinct models for dental practice ownership: the Productive Solo, the Smart Solo, the Profitable Group, the Pseudo Specialist, and the Mega Group. You will learn how to identify the specific bottleneck—be it patient flow or clinical calibration—inhibiting your growth and how to implement dental business strategies like the "operating rhythm" to solve it. By transitioning to a team-led approach to entrepreneurship for dentists, you can increase your "surface area for luck" and ensure your practice values grow alongside your income.
Stop letting growth happen by accident. Learn how to use Dental Moneyball principles to audit your administrative time and focus on the tasks that actually move the needle. By the end of this episode, you’ll have the tools to communicate a clear vision to your team, ensuring everyone is rowing in the same direction for a profitable 2026 in dental practice ownership.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Shared Practices podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | And today I am doing a solo episode on Ask George to talk about preparing for the end of the year and transitioning into the new year. |
| 0:14.0 | And so this is something that I've really added to my annual routine. |
| 0:18.0 | And I think it's one of the things that's been very impactful for me. |
| 0:20.0 | So I actually, in December, I take what's called the Think Week. And I like to kind of have this |
| 0:24.6 | week where I really just think about where things are at, what beliefs of mine have changed, |
| 0:29.3 | and really gearing up and getting ready for the new year. And so since you're listening to the |
| 0:34.4 | podcast, I'm going to make an end of the year episode preparing for |
| 0:38.4 | next year to kind of take you through the process that I would go through, but customizing it for |
| 0:44.0 | your practice and your life around your practice. And so that's going to be what we're talking about |
| 0:49.0 | today. And I think that the biggest thing is I really want to convey the importance of being prepared |
| 0:56.2 | for a new year. |
| 0:57.8 | And so when you think about it, right, if you're heading into a new year, the calendar turns |
| 1:01.8 | and you have the opportunity now to set your sights on what's next for you. |
| 1:05.5 | There's usually a renewed sense of energy, and you can set those goals. |
| 1:09.1 | And so in this episode, I want you to just take a minute and think about the things that |
| 1:13.3 | I'm talking about and think about them not just when the episode is released, but try to think |
| 1:17.9 | about them for the rest of this calendar year so that when you get to the turn of the year and |
| 1:22.4 | January comes, you feel ready and you know what's next for you and you can come in when |
| 1:26.7 | everyone has that sense of |
| 1:28.2 | you know new year new me you kind of know okay i have a new sense of direction or a refined |
| 1:34.1 | sense of direction and i'm ready to attack 2026 and so the first thing that i want us to talk about |
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