by John G. Self | Aug 9, 2017 | Career Management, Leadership
LISTEN: Today we are continuing our focus on employee turnover, one of the biggest unreported expenses in business. These costs — direct and indirect — are very real and cut into profits and reduce shareholder value. Why then do we seem to tolerate it? Why do most...
by John G. Self | Oct 7, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
At a time of industry wide disruption and stress, senior leaders have a responsibility to step up their game, from the results “they” produce to the way they interact with employees. This is one of the most important things a CEO does. “I don’t know how you can be a...
by John G. Self | May 20, 2013 | Leadership
Trust That word is intrinsically linked to leadership. It is an underlying value in most companies – the CEO and the senior leadership trust their employees to do the right thing. The more important questions for the CEO are, “How do you know that your employees...
by John G. Self | Apr 17, 2012 | Healthcare, Leadership
The history of corporate portrait photography and the evolution of leadership makes for an interesting comparison. In the 19th and 20th centuries, corporate portraits, like the leadership styles of the subjects, were of stern-face corporate barons. These titans of...
by John G. Self | Oct 17, 2022 | Brand Management, Career
Industry-wide, healthcare spends more money to fix problems that never seem to get resolved. We spend millions of dollars on consultants every year to improve the quality of care and enhance patient safety, but these issues remain a serious problem. We look to costly...
