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...
by John G. Self | Dec 21, 2015 | Career Management
As I sat in my office Sunday morning preparing for my next to last business trip before the Christmas holiday, I was wondering why some New York Times Crossword Puzzle devotees think it is cheating to look up answers themselves but have no remorse, not a scintilla of...
by John G. Self | Dec 14, 2015 | Leadership
I have said it. Many times. So have many school counselors, bosses, friends, even parents. Typically it was uttered as sage advice to dissuade a foolish act, to protect a loved one from crushing disappointment or, in my case, to steer an executive away from an...
by John G. Self | Dec 2, 2015 | Career Management, Leadership
“You always need to keep young ears.” — Singer Sir Tom Jones Sir Tom Jones — Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE — is a Welsh-born singer whose rugged good looks and massive voice propelled him to fame in the mid-1960s, first in the UK and in the early 1970s in the US, but it...
