The practice becomes valuable when the owner becomes optional.
I used to say obsolete. Same idea.
After 60 practice transitions, I can tell you exactly what buyers are thinking when they walk into a practice where everything runs through the owner.
They’re thinking about risk.
What happens if this person gets sick?
What happens if they move to Hawaii?
What happens if they get hit by a bus?
In most practices, the answer is the same.
Everything stops.
And a practice that stops without its owner isn’t worth what the owner thinks it is.
I spent years making myself optional. Decentralized leadership. Clear accountability. Real ownership of responsibilities. I got to the point where I knew I could disappear for six months and the practice would keep running, keep producing, and keep taking great care of patients without a single call to me.
That’s not a management strategy.
That’s what makes a practice desirable instead of merely sellable.
Most dentists spend years trying to become indispensable.
The better goal is becoming optional.
Start now.
Not when you’re ready to sell.
Now.
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