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...
by John G. Self | Sep 24, 2014 | Leadership
Edward Koch, the often brash and eclectic former Mayor of the City of New York was famous for asking residents (voters) “How’m I doin’?” From construction workers and ordinary people of the street, to well-heeled financial supporters on the...
by John G. Self | Jun 9, 2014 | Recruiting
Here is what we know: Great talent is critical to the success of business Great talent is hard to come by; most of our employees are not “A”s, the best, but “Bs” and “Cs” Hiring the wrong person is a very costly and very painful [Tweet “Most organizations do a...
by John G. Self | Apr 21, 2014 | Career Management, Healthcare
The early signs of the transformation of healthcare are powering the drumbeat of career management essentials: performance, performance, performance and the ability to adapt. In an increasingly crowded healthcare job market – consolidations and layoffs are up and...
