by John G. Self | Feb 23, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. I have heard that phrase for as long as I can remember. My dad, the owner of a successful retail bakery, was fond of the phrase, especially when his business partner, my mother, began to micromanage his day. In...
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...
by John G. Self | Sep 22, 2014 | Career Management
Senior executives who have built an impressive track record of consistently meeting or exceeding performance expectations in every position they have held, be on the alert. Failure could be right around the corner — with your new employer. CEOs and other leaders...
by John G. Self | Jun 16, 2014 | Recruiting
Traditional human resource departments – those that are transactional in their approach – are like the once popular MD 80 airplane – inefficient and out of step with the times. What was once the transformational darling of airlines chasing efficiency in the 1980s –...
by John G. Self | Jun 11, 2014 | Recruiting
Here is one of the most important things we know about engineering sustainable cultural change: it starts at the top. The CEO may have a reputation as “the invisible ghost” with the staff, but if he or she does not buy off on, and visibly support, the change, it...
