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 11, 2016 | Career Management, Executive Leadership, Leadership, Patient Safety, Podcast, Quality of Care
This weekend, we focus on leadership values. Ken Richmond, FACHE, an interim executive based in Buffalo, New York, walks the talk when it comes to being a values leader. It is not a good day unless he visits with at least five patients and tours the facility talking...
by John G. Self | Jun 10, 2016 | Career Management, Leadership, Millennials
They are spelled the same, minus the “s,” but their meaning can be dramatically different when you define a company’s focus and contrast that with the leadership style of the executive in charge. There are many executives — CEOs, CFOs Chief Marketing Officers and Vice...
by John G. Self | Jun 8, 2016 | Career Management, Current Affairs, Executive Leadership, Healthcare, Leadership, Military Career Transition, Millennials
One of the great perplexing secrets in life — at least among those who recruit executives for a living — is what makes a good leader. Why do some people rise and others remain where they started? Researchers often look for complex explanations when the answer is, in...
by John G. Self | Jun 4, 2016 | Career Management, Current Affairs, Executive Leadership, Leadership
It’s Saturday. John has a steaming cup of Community Coffee and the morning papers as well as notes on interesting ideas from the past week so settle in for interesting information and insight that will help you manage your career. Today he shares some...