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Despite our leadership-obsessed culture, are you looking in the right places to find the next big thing in your veterinary practice? Here's how one practice manager coaxed leadership qualities out of his staff.

Is what separates you from competitors succinct enough to be a hashtag?

Actionable steps to make stepping away from your veterinary clinic actually work.

Researchers expect industry to hit $33 billion by 2018 thanks in part to treat and 'premium' pet food sales.

Or, Dr. Dean Scott's unapologetic objection to the veterinary profession's seemingly obligatory requirements to work long hours, be the good guy or care more about pets than their owners.

Be creative in delegating, rethinking and streamlining veterinary practice tasks that too often bring you to a halt.

Begin and maintain this systems philosophy to make your veterinary practice more productive and efficient.

Simple practice policy may not protect you from employees out to damage your veterinary business.

This author is sick of hearing, I want to sell my practice ASAPjust like youre sick of hearing, I knew I should have brought Max in sooner.

What you deem as an appropriate emotional reaction may be perceived as much more by your veterinary team.

It's all here: Debunking audit urban legends, avoiding mistakes that trigger audits and managing a tax audit if you do get that scary letter from the IRS.

Try these tips to avoid client care mistakes.

Dr. Chip Ponsford explores how to "tend" your veterinary practice in order to harvest an efficient, successful business.

Get your staff to see the light and you're halfway there.

Find out if you've done everything you can to prevent violent assaults at your veterinary practice.

What Toyota has to teach veterinary hospitals.

Offering support to every client faced with difficult decisions about their pet may reduce negative incidents and endear clients to your practice.

Veterinary clinics often have everything a perpetrator is looking for.

Featuring exclusive new research on team pay, this dvm360 Leadership Challenge explores the data behind what team members makeand how to grow the business so practices can afford to pay more.

Dr. Margaret Ferrell is touted as 'one of the best surgeons he has seen in 42 years' by expert witness, while dissenters continue to claim non-profit, low cost clinics are unfair competition that provide substandard care.

How to crunch the numbers for a fair salary for private practice owners.

Veterinary conference attendees dug down deep to explore skills, desires and personality to navigate the bumpy path to veterinary clinic ownership.

Sounds nice, but Uncle Sam might have other ideas ...

Firstline asked team members to name their biggest frustrations in practice. Heres a sample of their answersin their own wordsand tools to boost morale and efficiency.