The Downside of a Lean Practice

Beyond that, anyway, I got sent a couple of posts this week and had a lot of convos actually with people about lean models and people talking to me about why it doesn't work, which is great because let's talk about it.

I think- It can be done horribly wrong.

And there's specific situations where it may be not the best move.

One that comes to mind straight away is women who are going through the phase of having kids.

If you've gone lean and it's just you and you're the solo practitioner, you could be up shit creek.

So let's talk about all that side of things.

So some of the vulnerabilities.

I think is the, like, if you're not there practicing, who is? That's obviously one of them.

So that's probably the thing I hear the most.

It's, yeah, I'm doing really well.

I love it.

It's my business.

But then if I take a couple of weeks off, I've got to shut the business down, like close for two weeks.

If I get sick, if I can't go in, my kids get sick, I can't go in, that sort of stuff.

So there's no sort of, what would you call it? Safety net.

Yeah, there's no safety net.

There's nothing to bounce off.

So let's talk about that.

Nath, if we speak of the vulnerability...

Any other examples of that? What have you seen out there? A

couple of things on that.

I don't think it's a vulnerability rather than you need to have more advanced planning.

Like it is a vulnerability, but that vulnerability has been there forever.

And there's a special thing that we all know and love called a locum.

And now obviously short term, that can't be helped, right? But even in most businesses or chiropractic practices, as we talk about constantly, the product is the person, not the adjustment.