by John G. Self | Jun 3, 2011 | Career Management, Leadership
Senior executives and managers who repeatedly castigate employees in front of their peers – yelling or humiliating them for whatever reason in whatever venue – prove only one thing: they are not leaders, they are bullies. Physicians, the leaders in clinical care, who...
by John G. Self | Apr 1, 2011 | Leadership, Recruiting
Should a business hire an executive with an impressive record of accomplishment in improving operations and financial performance who is “high profile, charismatic and dynamic” even though reference reports suggest that he has a temper and that his...
by John G. Self | Mar 22, 2011 | Healthcare, Leadership
As the nation’s overwhelming debt crisis looms, and as the immediacy of healthcare reform’s reimbursement reductions come into focus, healthcare human resource executives are zeroing in on strategies to acquire and retain the best talent ahead of their competitors. ...
by John G. Self | Feb 8, 2011 | Healthcare, Leadership
As healthcare leaders, policy analysts and journalists point with alarm to a growing shortage of physicians in the U.S., the fact that there is a widening gender gap – in compensation – is particularly troublesome. Newly trained women physicians are paid about $17,000...
by John G. Self | Jan 31, 2011 | Healthcare, Leadership
I wish I had a dollar for every management consultant report, book or journal that exhorted the value of out-of-the-box thinking. Talk about a cash windfall. In one book, the author, decidedly tongue in cheek, posited that it would be one of history’s true...
by John G. Self | Dec 28, 2010 | Leadership, Recruiting
Miss-hires, bad hires, and fraudulent hires cost hospitals millions upon millions of dollars each year. In the healthcare provider segment which will see a decade or more of significant downward pressure on costs, hiring the wrong people, for whatever reason, is a...
