by John G. Self | Dec 12, 2014 | Career Management, Leadership
We are not entitled to have a job. There is no legal or constitutional guarantee of employment. We are paid to do a job. Typically we work as part of a team — either in senior leadership, management or as an hourly employee. The big challenge for leaders is to get...
by John G. Self | Dec 8, 2014 | Leadership
For the purpose of this blog, I am going to dumb down everything written about management styles. I am no business school expert but after 20 years of looking at resumes and listening to candidates talk about leadership, I am “trending” towards reducing the...
by John G. Self | Nov 19, 2014 | Leadership
There are executives who think they are important to an organization and there are those who really are. The demands and ego posturing of the former usually far exceed the quantifiable and subjective value they bring to the enterprise. The latter are those who...
by John G. Self | Nov 5, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership, Recruiting
Going big — hiring the biggest consultancy, the global or industry leader in this or that field — is a fact of life in business even though going big does not guarantee innovation, quality, value or success. It will guarantee a premium fee, higher costs. Some...
by John G. Self | Oct 13, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership, Recruiting
When I entered the healthcare industry there was a dearth of emphasis on the detailed management metrics that we now use to evaluate performance. Today, quantitative analysis rules supreme. But, like so many other things in life, too much of a good thing can be a bad...
by John G. Self | Oct 1, 2014 | Leadership
One of the biggest challenges for a new Chief Executive Officer is to take over an organization with a dysfunctional culture, their performance, while acceptable, is not sustainable and the vast majority of the employees think everything is fine and dandy. The biggest...
