by John G. Self | Aug 11, 2016 | Executive Leadership, Healthcare, Leadership
Editor’s Note: John is wrapping up a three-day due-diligence site visit for a new CEO search. Here is one of his favorite posts from 2009. Much has been written in the past year about leadership in healthcare. With the economic crisis continuing to batter...
by John G. Self | Aug 5, 2016 | Executive Leadership, Healthcare, Leadership, Medical Staff Development, Rural / Community Hospitals
The Director of Economic Development of a small community was giving a tour to a corporate relocation executive scouting sites for a new plant that would hire 800 people. Eight hundred jobs for a community sorely in need of an economic boost. During an orientation...
by John G. Self | Jul 28, 2016 | Career Management, Early Careerists, Leadership, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Recruiting
Here is the rundown for today’s podcast. John reflects on his early career as a reporter, editor and an investigative journalist for newspapers in Tyler, Lubbock and Houston Texas. He was loved what he was doing, even on the bad nights covering gruesome crime...
by John G. Self | Jul 12, 2016 | Executive Leadership, Healthcare, Leadership, Recruiting
Here is today’s podcast rundown: John focuses on the importance of vendor innovation and leadership to help clients succeed in these challenging times of healthcare reform and the inevitable reductions to reimbursement. He describes how his firm, JohnGSelf +...
by John G. Self | Jul 1, 2016 | Current Affairs, Leadership, Millennials
How would you describe the leadership styles of the patriots who led the American colonies to independence from Great Britain? Participative? Situational? Collaborative? Command and control? How about courageous? When the initial battles with the English broke out...
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...
