by John G. Self | Dec 9, 2015 | Career Management, Recruiting
Tell me your strengths. That is the question every candidate enjoys answering, more so than the typical tell me about yourself opening question that amazingly makes so many people uncomfortable. Well, I hate to the bearer of bad news, but this nice tell me about your...
by John G. Self | Oct 2, 2015 | Career Management, Recruiting
TYLER, Texas — The competition for best executive leadership positions is intensifying. With market consolidation and an increasing number of layoffs due to health systems and hospitals trimming operating expenses, there are way more candidates than there are jobs. ...
by John G. Self | Sep 2, 2015 | Healthcare
For several years I have been writing about hyper competitive markets and the impact the intense competition for patients, physicians, and skilled workers has on leadership. Now there is a new term being floated by a growing band of outspoken leaders and patient...
by John G. Self | Apr 15, 2013 | Career Management, Leadership
In the realm of leadership, executives must successfully manage their departments, their divisions or their companies. At the same time they must apply these same leadership principles to their own career management. That said, for the Baby Boomer and older Gen X...
by John G. Self | Nov 2, 2012 | Healthcare
In markets where physicians hold ownership stakes or financial interests in one hospital, and where there is evidence that those same physicians are discharging patients from a competing hospital’s emergency department over to their own outpatient facility to be...