by John G. Self | Feb 18, 2015 | Career Management, Technology
Today’s transitioning executives are re-entering the job market poorly prepared for digital networking. Our informal research reveals that four in 10 executives looking for their next job do not have a LinkedIn profile. Seven in 10 have poorly prepared profiles,...
by John G. Self | Feb 16, 2015 | Career Management, Healthcare, Leadership
BALTIMORE — The importance of smart networking in career management, always important to support personal brand management, is now a critical must-do. Continued government-driven efforts to reform America’s healthcare delivery system will promote “shrinkage”...
by John G. Self | Dec 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
As we approach the end of the year, it is time to think about our resolutions for 2015. In the past, most of us make these best effort pledges to become more physically fit, to be more responsive to our spouses or children, to be more organized — that sort of...
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 | Nov 19, 2014 | Leadership
There are executives who think they are important to an organization and there are those who really are. The demands and ego posturing of the former usually far exceed the quantifiable and subjective value they bring to the enterprise. The latter are those who...
