by John G. Self | Nov 14, 2014 | Career Management
Successful athletes on winning teams have one thing in common: they intensely and consistently focus on the fundamentals. That principle applies to executives and managers, as well as candidates in the job market. Being a successful executive or manager is about...
by John G. Self | Nov 5, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership, Recruiting
Going big — hiring the biggest consultancy, the global or industry leader in this or that field — is a fact of life in business even though going big does not guarantee innovation, quality, value or success. It will guarantee a premium fee, higher costs. Some...
by John G. Self | Sep 10, 2014 | Career Management
While the job market may be tightening for healthcare C-Suite positions, coupled with intense competition for those jobs that do become available, there is one career segment that will probably see significant growth over the next five years: interim executives. For...
by John G. Self | Sep 8, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
The CEO of a major airline that is in the early stages of merging two very diverse operations and cultures, recently bragged about how good things were going, much better than expected, certainly better than the United/Continental union which hit some large speed...
by John G. Self | Jul 28, 2014 | Career Management, Recruiting
I have interviewed hundreds of senior executives in my more than 20 years of executive recruiting, and I have come to understand that the part of the process that trips up many candidates is the first part of the face-to-face interview. It is what I call the get...
