by John G. Self | Jan 20, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
A recent study determined that the hardest businesses in the world to manage are hospitals — 20 percent tougher than any other enterprise. For health system and hospital CEOs, those results amount to nothing more than a blinding flash of the obvious. While I do not...
by John G. Self | Nov 18, 2013 | Healthcare
It’s over. That period of time, and accompanying belief system, where regardless of how messy attempts to reform healthcare become, that everything will somehow work out, that the business model we know will survive relatively unchanged, is just not realistic. Yet,...
by John G. Self | Oct 7, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
At a time of industry wide disruption and stress, senior leaders have a responsibility to step up their game, from the results “they” produce to the way they interact with employees. This is one of the most important things a CEO does. “I don’t know how you can be a...
by John G. Self | Jan 2, 2013 | Healthcare
America’s healthcare model does not consistently produce high quality. In fact, the evidence suggests that this is a massively complex problem that is getting bigger. Quality of care is shaped by so many variables— literally millions of habits, interactions, poor...
by John G. Self | Dec 28, 2012 | Healthcare, Leadership
Many healthcare organizations are long on control, short on vision. Almost everyone has a vision statement, but that vision statement is rarely discussed and most employees have no idea what it says, nor do they care. It is not part of the day-to-day life of taking...
