by John G. Self | May 15, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
A friend, an accomplished and respected Hospital CEO, has seen health care from the other side. Recently, a beloved family member died. He took early retirement so that he and his wife could offer full support. This heart wrenching ordeal offered him a unique...
by John G. Self | May 6, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
It is always amazing to me how many well educated executives struggle with their performance because of their dislike of ambiguity — the state of uncertainty or lack of clarity. The afflicted always deny it but when but you strip away their protestations to the...
by John G. Self | May 1, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
In the early 1980s, a Houston hospital CEO was frustrated by his hospital’s anemic financial performance despite the tightening of financial controls, as well as noisy department manager meetings replete with leadership huffing and puffing about dire consequences if...
by John G. Self | Apr 29, 2015 | Leadership
HOUSTON — There are a couple of ways to look at leadership style. Earned respect, and command and control, which is to say, I’m the boss, do what I say. Earned respect requires more skill. It takes more time and energy but will generally produce sustainable...
by John G. Self | Apr 15, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — While the money we make for the work we do is important, we must always remember to maintain perspective as these four vignettes reveal. A top interim physician CEO, a JohnGSelf + Partners team member, did not start his career in medicine. ...
by John G. Self | Apr 6, 2015 | Leadership
When I was a 24-year-old crime writer and investigative reporter working in Houston I had no idea what my career end game should be. It was not that I just assumed that I would always work in the news business; I did not think about it at all. Later, as I moved into...
