by John G. Self | Jun 13, 2012 | Career Management
In good times and bad, building and sustaining a vital network of professional contacts is one the most important keys to effective career management. A robust network will minimize the negative effects of the inevitable setbacks that occur. For an executive looking...
by John G. Self | Jun 5, 2012 | Career Management
Consistently delivering excellent results against the business plan is an essential pillar for effective career management. There will always be top performers, good performers, and then a group I prefer to call the marginals. This is one of the immutable truths of...
by John G. Self | Jun 1, 2012 | Career Management
The nice thing about waking up before dawn is that you can retire to your study with a cup of coffee, think out loud and there is no one around who will tell you that you are wrong. As I read the news regarding the monthly jobs report, my thoughts returned to several...
by John G. Self | Apr 12, 2012 | Healthcare, Stories, Technology
Let’s face it. The Baby Boomers — and that would include me — are getting older. We are searching for the best hearing aids and we are flooding into the federal government’s Social Security and Medicare programs at a record pace — one...
by John G. Self | Feb 20, 2012 | Current Affairs, Stories
The New Yorker is, among many other things, famous for its cartoons. In the Feb 12 edition, a man and a woman are sitting at a sidewalk café with cups of coffee. The man looks up and says, “Conversation? I thought we were just meeting for coffee.” And so it goes...
