WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR
AIDA?
Immolation!
(Figuratively, of Course)
Jim Savage, a talented speaker in the Zig Ziglar
organization, says:
"IF YOU SET
YOURSELF ON FIRE, OTHERS WILL GATHER TO WATCH YOU BURN"
- AIDA needs at least one visionary, one secure
fee-for-service dentist, one rabble-rouser, from every
local dental organization in the country.
- This leader must be a change agent and ready to
make a stand that may or may not not be popular,
depending on local attitudes.
- This leader needs to have the communication
skills to help his or her colleagues see that the present
paradigm used by Organized Dentistry is not based on
today's marketplace, but on the past, and was devised to
accomodate dentists and not fulfill the needs of dental
consumers.
- This leader needs to have the inner fortitude to
make a stand in
local dentistry, where this new but realistic vision of
dentistry's current position may alienate many.
- This leader should form a new local organization
as an affiliate of AIDA, to take advantage of and add to
AIDA's action templates and communications network.
- This new local organization must follow the rules
and procedures of the local dental society to gain
recognition and representation in that body.
- From there, the AIDA representatives must work
their way through the local, state, and national
leadership in order to facilitate realistic vision and
become agents of change.
Are you 
that person?
None of this will
be easy, and certainly not everyone who joins AIDA will be this
change agent.
- What is expected from the rest of you is to
contribute with time, energy, and money to get
fee-for-service dentistry back in the marketplace and
choice re-associated with dentistry.
- Your local AIDA affiliate will need philosophers,
stamp lickers, and everything in between.
- What we offer to the average fee-for-service
dentist, that has never existed before, is a forum and a
pre-orchestrated means in the form of Templates
for Success to re-assume some of the
power that has been usurped.
- We offer the use of the eyes, ears, and mouth of
AIDA.
- What we need is for the
approximately [only] 20% of dentists in this country who
still have no or little involvement in reduced fee
dentistry to wake up, look around, step forward, join
AIDA, and DO SOMETHING!
If AIDA can achieve 20%
membership, then it will succeed. The top 20% are usually
the doers in any enterprise. Where do you stand?
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