by John G. Self | Mar 17, 2014 | Career Management, Healthcare
This is the first of a three-part blog theme with some ideas on how and why candidates must adapt to how market competition and the transformation of healthcare are rapidly changing the job market Seasoned healthcare executives entering the job market, either through...
by John G. Self | Mar 14, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
CHICAGO (March 23, 2009) – As the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) convenes its annual education Congress today, the military is out in force. These healthcare executives from the military’s highly regarded Medical Service Corp (MSC) run our Army, Navy...
by John G. Self | Feb 19, 2014 | Healthcare
As we move inexorably to a series of regulatory and reimbursement changes irritated by congressional ineptitude, certain silent trends are emerging that will alter key aspects of the healthcare management infrastructure. These not-yet visible trends revolve around...
by John G. Self | Feb 17, 2014 | Healthcare
BALTIMORE — I guess I am a hopeless, naive Boy Scout. That we have a problem in healthcare with a growing number of deaths — the result of preventable medical errors — makes me angry. That my industry seems desensitized to this problem is more than just...
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 | Jan 20, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
A recent study determined that the hardest businesses in the world to manage are hospitals — 20 percent tougher than any other enterprise. For health system and hospital CEOs, those results amount to nothing more than a blinding flash of the obvious. While I do not...
