by John G. Self | Dec 23, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
I enjoy the thrill of finding something new and good and it is very gratifying when others agree. Music, books, and people — leadership talent — are among my favorite interests. I collect music. I have eclectic tastes that range from opera to hip hop. Now that, as...
by John G. Self | Dec 16, 2013 | Leadership
Jeremy Zimmer started working in gas stations when he was 14. By 16 he was managing them. He dropped out of college at 19. “I was always a good worker, but I was never a very good student.” He was running several valet parking stations in Boston. This snippet of a...
by John G. Self | Dec 13, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
Please enjoy this post from December 2012 and share your hiring and interview tips in the comments. A CEO I knew, who was a Chief Operating Officer of a small academic medical center, once bragged that he interviewed every new hire for his organization. He called...
by John G. Self | Dec 2, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
Millennials — those born after 1980 — are often thought of as a self-centered generation, not highly motivated by the opportunity for hard work and financial gain. They want what they want on their terms, or so the misunderstanding goes. So who is promoting this...
by John G. Self | Nov 8, 2013 | Career Management, Leadership, Stories
Over the past five-plus years, I have written more than 550 blogs, a veritable book of career advice, lessons on leadership, and stories from my misbegotten youth working in my parent’s retail bakery, as well as my early career experience as a crime writer and...
by John G. Self | Nov 1, 2013 | Leadership, Stories
We all remember our first jobs, working retail, hospital orderly, file clerk, gofer, (as in go for the coffee, go for the lunch, etc.). They covered the waterfront, the mundane to the backbreaking. The jobs could be interesting or boring but they taught us about the...
