by John G. Self | May 23, 2014 | Current Affairs
Not to step on anyone’s political toes, but… It is Memorial Day weekend, a holiday where families, friends and neighbors gather for picnics and backyard cookouts. Hamburgers, hot dogs, barbecue brisket and ribs, corn on the cob and of course cakes, pies...
by John G. Self | Feb 5, 2014 | Current Affairs, Healthcare, Recruiting
You always hear about the haves and the have nots in our society. In our current political discourse — a nice word for yelling at one another — we are beginning to hear more and more about two other economic categories: the have more and the have less...
by John G. Self | Nov 20, 2013 | Current Affairs, Healthcare
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I don’t usually write about politics in this space. Today, I am making an exception. I am in our nation’s capital, working. That is more than I can say for our national elected officials. They are playing around, practicing for the mid-term...
by John G. Self | Oct 25, 2013 | Current Affairs, Leadership, Stories
Warren Buffet recently opined that, years ago, when the titans of Wall Street converted their investment banks from partnerships to publicly owned businesses, the rules changed and all bets were off. In the days of investment bank partnerships, when someone took a...
by John G. Self | Oct 14, 2013 | Current Affairs, Healthcare
Posted From Chicago Three days until we hit the debt ceiling and the art of cash management for the federal government becomes a really tricky deal… Meanwhile, our leaders – with a small “L” – are scrambling to find a solution. As of this writing, on a beautiful cool...
by John G. Self | Sep 23, 2013 | Current Affairs, Healthcare, Leadership
John is off today. The following blog first appeared in July of 2009. Reforming healthcare is one of the most complex, daunting and important tasks of this decade. What began with great hope and good intentions to avoid the reform mistakes of the past is now going...
