by John G. Self | Jul 3, 2018 | Executive Leadership, Healthcare Innovation, Innovation
The winds of change have reached unrelenting status for the healthcare industry. The disruption of our bloated, costly business model has begun. There will be major career consequences for those who are “disruption deniers.” Unfortunately their healthcare businesses...
by John G. Self | Jun 8, 2018 | Executive Leadership
Employee engagement in American has, and remains, a significant problem for businesses. The vast majority of our employees are not engaged. Only 32% of employees in the United States are engaged, according to a Gallup poll. That means over two-thirds of employees...
by John G. Self | May 30, 2018 | Executive Leadership, Healthcare Innovation, Medical Staff Development
Today’s Big Idea: There is emerging momentum to the idea that affiliating with a larger health system will not guarantee independent community hospitals or smaller health systems the market security or financial sustainability to serve their communities. Market...
by John G. Self | Apr 12, 2018 | Career Management, Executive Leadership, Leadership
Being the best one can be is a noble ideal, an optimistic exhortation from our parents, or just a quiet personal goal for daily life. The sentiment has been around for a long time. From 1980 to 2001, it was incorporated in the US Army’s recruitment advertising...
by John G. Self | Oct 17, 2017 | Career Management, Executive Leadership, Leadership
How you manage your brand (reputation) in the workplace is just as important as promoting it in the great outdoors that is the court of public opinion. You cannot separate your “inside” brand — how you treat your employees, your vendors and customers — and “outside”...
by John G. Self | Jul 6, 2017 | Early Careerists, Executive Leadership
There is an old saying: “Curiosity killed the cat.” I bet you heard that from your parents at least once in your life. It was what I call a “slow down” note — as in, slow down John before you get somewhere you do not want to be (read: trouble). Its first cousin, “Be...
