by John G. Self | Jun 3, 2015 | Stories
It’s been a busy week at JohnGSelf Partners, so we are sharing an older blog post we posted in 2012. Enjoy! I love books—for their content and for the conversations that their subject matter, provocative titles, or book covers can generate on an airplane or...
by John G. Self | Apr 22, 2015 | Healthcare, Stories
In Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care published in 2008, author John Nance makes a case that hospitals would do well to incorporate aviation’s best practices into their daily operations. Clearly he was talking about...
by John G. Self | Apr 10, 2015 | Career Management, Stories
My dad was a hard working business owner. He worked long hours and had great success as a retail baker. He did it, first and foremost, to be a good provider for his family and to help his sons to have a life that was better than the one he had. In his youth and as...
by John G. Self | Mar 9, 2015 | Healthcare, Stories
Tomorrow, March 10, it will have been seven years since my mom died, the victim of a preventable patient care mistake in a hospital. I was in Chicago preparing to speak to two sessions at the Congress of the American College of Healthcare Executives. That she died was...
by John G. Self | Oct 8, 2014 | Stories
EN ROUTE TO CHICAGO — So, here I am aboard United Airlines flight 1141 en route to Chicago for a meeting. I am using this time to write my Wednesday blog because today’s schedule is a hectic one. After the meeting, I catch a return flight to Dallas. I better type...
by John G. Self | Sep 19, 2014 | Stories
In a small isolated ranching town in Southwest Texas — a place with no movie theater, no Walmart, no car dealership, one drug store and only three or four places to eat — there is a little of the 1950s and 1960s that is alive and well. It is not a new phenomenon to...
