by John G. Self | Apr 3, 2015 | Leadership, Recruiting
CEO candidates DO NOT like serious game-changing surprises with new jobs, especially those that surface AFTER they have accepted the position and relocated their family. This happens far too often. One rhetorical question I frequently hear: “The recruiter didn’t know...
by John G. Self | Mar 30, 2015 | Leadership, Recruiting
Transparency is a popular term in business today. It is critical for all aspects of leadership and in compliance, but it is especially important in recruiting. Over the years I have amassed quite a collection of stories where candidates, or organizations, were less...
by John G. Self | Mar 25, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
It is not what you did yesterday or today, but what you will do tomorrow. This is the battle cry for healthcare’s push to improve, to do it better, safer and cheaper. Get used to it. This will be one of many relentless pressures in the lives of healthcare executives...
by John G. Self | Mar 4, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
The customer is King. That is an immutable truth in business. In healthcare, like every other business known to mankind, we have customers. In business there are two groups of leaders, one that understands and respects that truth and then walks the talk. The other,...
by John G. Self | Mar 2, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
A wise and seasoned, if not a little cynical CEO I know, once described the payroll process at a former hospital as “distributing cash to zombies” or “paying people for something we are not getting.” In other words, paying employees just to show up. He also described...
by John G. Self | Feb 23, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. I have heard that phrase for as long as I can remember. My dad, the owner of a successful retail bakery, was fond of the phrase, especially when his business partner, my mother, began to micromanage his day. In...
