Running a practice is demanding. Most owners were never taught how to lead teams, manage pressure, or make decisions in a steady, structured way. If you ever find yourself reacting more than leading, you are not alone. It usually means the practice has outgrown the systems that used to work. Here are a few signs […]
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Selling a veterinary practice is one of the biggest decisions an owner will ever make. The practices that sell well are not the ones that scramble at the end. They are the ones that take a few grounded, thoughtful steps long before the idea of selling becomes real. These steps protect value, prevent surprises, and
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Most practices wait too long to start looking for another associate veterinarian. By the time the question even crosses your mind, the practice has usually already grown past what your current team can reasonably carry. That is not a problem. It is a sign of a healthy, trusted, in-demand practice. Adding an associate veterinarian is
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Numbers are never the solution.Numbers create the questions. Most practices treat KPIs as the answer. They expect a number to reveal what to fix, where to focus, or how to improve. But KPIs were never meant to direct decisions. They exist to highlight where something has shifted so you can look deeper. The value is
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Inventory is one of the most expensive and least understood parts of a veterinary practice. When it is not managed deliberately, it becomes a quiet source of financial strain, workflow disruption, and frustration for the team. A healthy inventory system is not about spreadsheets, vendors, or counting products. It is about structure. Here are the
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Most veterinary practices rely on performance reviews because they feel like the standard. They are annual, they follow a form, and they produce a document for the employee file. The problem is that performance reviews are built for evaluation, not alignment. They look backward, focus on rating people, and often miss the structural issues that
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Marketing does not fail because the ideas are bad. It fails because practices try to implement strategies that were never designed for their structure, their team, or their clients. Two patterns show up over and over again, and both lead to the same outcome: effort with no results. Here is what actually happens behind the
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Pricing issues do not always look like pricing issues. Most of the time, they show up as financial strain, staffing tension, or pressure on the owner long before anyone looks at the fee structure. These signs are not about failure. They are indicators that the pricing no longer matches the cost and effort behind the
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Team frustration is not a sign of a bad boss, and it is not a sign of bad people. Most of the time, frustration comes from basic misalignment. When people are trying to move through the day without the same understanding of what needs to happen or how the work should flow, even strong teams
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Veterinary practices work hard for every dollar they earn. Most owners believe profit loss comes from obvious issues like pricing or staffing levels. In reality, the biggest leaks tend to hide in the day-to-day systems that no one has time to examine closely. These leaks are small on the surface but significant over the course
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