by John G. Self | Jun 27, 2016 | Executive Leadership, Healthcare, Leadership, Recruiting
The smart leaders, as the saying goes, surround themselves with competent smart people and stay out of their way. The great organizations are those populated with confident executives who are not afraid to hire people who are smarter than they are. Great theory but in...
by John G. Self | Jun 24, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Executive Leadership, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Recruiting
Forty percent of executives who change organizations, roles or get promoted, fail within the first 18 months, according to a report in Fortune Magazine. This report is validated by other studies, including one conducted by a global search firm. Other studies suggest...
by John G. Self | Jun 21, 2016 | Career Management, Executive Leadership, Millennials, Physician Recruitment
In today’s podcast, we focus in on one of the great myths in business: bigger is definitely not better. Is having 20 nationwide offices of recruiters any guarantee that your search firm will be passionately committed to your success? Probably not. But in an...
by John G. Self | Jun 18, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Executive Leadership, Leadership, Podcast, Stories
SelfPerspective is available on iTunes Hello. Welcome to our podcast for this Father’s Day weekend, 2016. Today in SelfPerspective, John interviews John Graves, CEO of Lillian Hudspeth Memorial Hospital in rural Sonora, Texas. Mr. Graves describes his...
by John G. Self | Jun 17, 2016 | Career Management, Early Careerists, Executive Leadership, Healthcare, Leadership, Military Career Transition, Millennials
Editor’s Note: On Sunday, we will celebrate Father’s Day. Mother’s Day tends to be more significant in terms of spending — we spend only a paltry $13 billion globally on Father’s Day versus $20 billion for Mother’s Day. Interestingly, this spending trend applies in...
by John G. Self | Jun 15, 2016 | Executive Leadership, Healthcare, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Patient Safety, Quality of Care
Execution is one of those great business competencies that is a two-edged sword. No where is that more true than in healthcare. In the go-go era of business, when Jack Welch set a new standard for performance by a Fortune 50 Chief Executive Officer at GE, the...
