by John G. Self | Jul 16, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
Most healthcare leaders have graduate degrees. Their rigorous coursework and years of study prepared them for a journey that, theoretically, helped them to become good leaders in an industry where the quality of leadership can mean the difference between patient...
by John G. Self | Jul 11, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A word for hospital Chief Executive Officers, or those who aspire to run businesses that take care of patients: make it very personal. The CEO job, especially in complex general acute care hospitals is changing and it will change even more as...
by John G. Self | Jul 9, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
Values are important. The further one goes in their career – the higher one rises in an organization – the more important their values (should) become. Executives make decisions every day. Their values are in play at every turn, whether they consciously think about...
by John G. Self | Jun 23, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
In a business that today is filled with uncertainty, the one sure thing in healthcare is that we will experience a series of major changes over the next 10 years. [Tweet “Leaders who are uncomfortable with change are in for unsettling times.”] Leaders who...
by John G. Self | Jun 20, 2014 | Healthcare
In healthcare, we get what we pay for. What? Many quality/safety experts, public policy wonks and those who pay most of the costs would beg to disagree – in the strongest possible terms. That chorus includes the families of the hundreds of thousands of patients who...
by John G. Self | Jun 6, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
Sometimes it is the little things that a leader does that can make a big, big difference. Like a weekly letter to board members. Ten years ago, James N. Valenti, FACHE, was appointed President and Chief Executive of the struggling R. E. Thomason Hospital, El Paso’s...
