Anne 💡 Gray

Anne Gray is a business consultant, MBA graduate of GIBS, and co-founder of Grow Your Healthcare Practice — a business education and coaching platform built specifically for healthcare professionals running private practices in South Africa. I have been inside enough messy boardrooms to know the real problem is almost never the obvious one. The same is true in healthcare practices, in start-ups, and in businesses that have outgrown the version of their founder that built them. I work with founders who are excellent at their work, and find that building the business around it turns out to be a different skill set entirely. If you're a healthcare practice owner: the podcast, the free community, and the mastermind are for you. If you're a small business owner who's hit a ceiling: you're in the right place too. Writing about business, leadership, and the work behind the work.

“If I just took two weeks off, I'd finally get organised.”

Published about 19 hours ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader The common belief: My practice's systems are a mess — my bookings, my note-taking, my filing — and the only way to fix it is to block out real time. A week off. Maybe two. Why it sounds reasonable: It feels true that a big problem needs a big block of time to solve it. Where it breaks: Work expands to fill the time available to it. Block out two weeks to sort your systems, and you will very likely finish with one thing done and the rest still scattered — while also losing two weeks...

Anne 💡 Gray

“If I just took two weeks off, I'd finally get organised.”

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