by John G. Self | Apr 12, 2013 | Healthcare, Stories
It has been a long, tough day, a good day but stressful nonetheless. A delicious ice-cold martini sounds incredibly tempting. But as I lean back in my chair, I bump into the elephant in the room. My waistline is greater than the insurance target of 40 inches – not...
by John G. Self | Mar 22, 2013 | Stories
I just had a senior moment. Not the kind associated with old age with an ever so slight hint at forgetfulness or, worse, the earliest stages of dementia, but a real honest to goodness meet up with the inescapable fact that I am now a “gentleman of a certain age.” It...
by John G. Self | Mar 18, 2013 | Healthcare, Recruiting, Stories
Why am I an executive recruiter? That is a question that I am frequently asked, given my background — from being a newspaper reporter and the first director of Hermann Hospital’s acclaimed Life Flight program and national marketing manager for the aircraft company,...
by John G. Self | Mar 11, 2013 | Stories
We mourn the loss of Sandy Lutz, a PriceWaterhouseCoopers Health Institute leader and former Dallas bureau chief of Modern Healthcare. She was an amazing reporter, author and, above all else, a great wife and mother. She was also a friend to so many of us in...
by John G. Self | Mar 8, 2013 | Stories, Technology
If you received an email from me on Thursday afternoon regarding a Google document and this email did not contain my corporate email signature, then I have a suggestion: delete it. For the first time in my 19 years in business, my email was hacked. Thank you very...
by John G. Self | Feb 22, 2013 | Leadership, Stories
I have a confession to make. For more than eight years I had torrid and wonderfully fulfilling love affair — with the game of baseball as an umpire, working my way up from dad’s pitch games at the YMCA to high school and the community college conferences. As I...
