by John G. Self | Dec 31, 2019 | Career Management, Millennials, Personal Growth
Britt Chittum, a business evangelist/consult from the Detroit metro on Monday posted the following thought for the day on LinkedIn: (Source: unknown, non attributed) When you are 30 you say, no problem, I have plenty of time. When you are 40, same song with a...
by John G. Self | May 29, 2018 | Career Management, Healthcare Innovation, Millennials, Personal Growth
The news that Apple plans to set up health clinics for its employees produced barely a ripple on the impending sea of change. No big deal, right? Certainly no threat to your career. The initial collective shrug of shoulders seemed to be based on the idea that with...
by John G. Self | Apr 26, 2018 | Career Management, Executive Coaching, Personal Growth
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — It took a relationship coach to shed some light for me on the genesis of bad behavior in the workplace. It is not an anger management issue, this consultant maintains, it is a problem with the individual’s maturity. Christie...
by John G. Self | Jan 24, 2018 | Leadership, Personal Growth, Podcast
LISTEN ON iTUNES Dear New Year’s resolutions. It was fun while it lasted, signed January 2. The catchy sentiment from our Quote of the Day feature on LinkedIn and Facebook drew howls of laughter from the guilty. Making and keeping our resolutions seems to be an uphill...
by John G. Self | Jan 23, 2018 | Career Management, Personal Growth
IN FRONT OF THE FIREPLACE – In the print news business, reporters use a dateline when they are filing their story from a location other than the city in which they are based. The only rule is that you should be physically in that location when you send the...
by John G. Self | Jan 9, 2018 | Leadership, Personal Growth
An erroneous report in a French newspaper in 1888 may have inspired a wealthy businessman to rewrite his life’s story. The newspaper reported that the businessman had died when it fact it was his brother who had passed away. The mistaken obituary described the...
