by John G. Self | Feb 5, 2016 | Career Management, Leadership
Some of the best leaders I know run community hospitals… This is going to be good year and it is going to be a hard year. Regulatory and market uncertainty will be a fact of life for the foreseeable future. That from a very talented consultant who said that Thursday...
by John G. Self | Jan 29, 2016 | Career Management
Most everyone has a job loss at one time or another in their career. Or, asked to resign, fired, laid off or restructured out of the organization. It is inevitable. It is usually not a happy day for the one losing their job. They worry about their mortgage, the...
by John G. Self | Jan 27, 2016 | Career Management
A frustrated resident of the District of Columbia, angry with city government’s inability to clear mountains of snow from residential streets on Tuesday, called out Mayor Muriel Bowser and her leadership team for their poor performance in dealing with the aftermath of...
by John G. Self | Jan 13, 2016 | Career Management
Sometimes it is hard to trust — instrumentation, technology, even Google maps and route navigation. The human mind is a powerful computer that can be adversely affected by our senses, even when those strong impulses in the brain are misguided. For example, when...
by John G. Self | Jan 4, 2016 | Career Management, Leadership
As we begin another business year, I thought a good way to launch the 2016 version of Self Perspective would be to share a list of New Year’s Resolutions that, if we would only follow them, would produce great value in our careers. I will treat my team — my...