by John G. Self | Oct 8, 2013 | Leadership
Kudos to Joann Lublin, management news editor at The Wall Street Journal, for her excellent work in writing about leadership and other management issues. Her work is one reason I value my WSJ digital subscription. Joann and I are email acquaintances. I am a little...
by John G. Self | Aug 7, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
We will find out fairly quickly who the best of the best is at running hospitals. The Affordable Care Act and the inevitable deficit reduction will weed out the top performers from the soon-to-be unemployed. History does repeat itself. In the early 1980s, a savvy...
by John G. Self | Jul 17, 2013 | Healthcare
In healthcare, with very bumpy roads ahead of us, executives will be forced, finally, to marry their talk, the posters on their walls, and their walk – that their people, the talent that make a hospital a success or a failure, must be our most important asset. We...
by John G. Self | Jul 8, 2013 | Healthcare, Recruiting
When a major national health services organization acquired a major group purchasing organization (GPO), there was no question that the more than 250 employees who were part of the reduction in force would receive outplacement. The financial mavens raised their...
by John G. Self | May 8, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
This post was originally published on July 1, 2011. Hospital CEOs have their hands full. They face a boiling cauldron of operational, financial and competitive challenges – any of which could prove career limiting. Surprisingly, however, many CEOs fail not because...
