by John G. Self | Jan 7, 2015 | Leadership
HOUSTON, Texas – Here are a couple of questions for Chief Executive Officers: Do you know who the change resistant executives are in your senior leadership team? Chances are there is at least one. Do your senior leaders know, in the ranks of managers that report to...
by John G. Self | Dec 22, 2014 | Career Management, Leadership
You are on the spot. You are one of the top candidates to be Chief Executive Officer of a highly regarded, financially stable community hospital. So far, you feel the interview with the recruiter is going well. Then, without warning, he shifts gears and asks one of...
by John G. Self | Dec 19, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
The Huron CEO forum frequently produces interesting insights regarding the year ahead and this year is no different with the possible exception that the CEOs seem to be zeroing in on the issues that will count the most. Gordon Mountford, executive vice president of...
by John G. Self | Dec 15, 2014 | Career Management, Leadership
This may surprise some in healthcare, but dozens upon dozens of health system and hospital CEOs and other senior executives have admitted to me in my more than 20+ years in executive search that they are not that good at conducting interviews. I have heard a version...
by John G. Self | Oct 1, 2014 | Leadership
One of the biggest challenges for a new Chief Executive Officer is to take over an organization with a dysfunctional culture, their performance, while acceptable, is not sustainable and the vast majority of the employees think everything is fine and dandy. The biggest...
