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 | Dec 1, 2014 | Current Affairs, Healthcare
There are dire predictions for the future of small community hospitals as healthcare/payment reform and deficit reduction plays out: many will be forced to close their doors. USA Today recently chronicled the plight of Richland, GA, a community that saw it’s 25-bed...
by John G. Self | Nov 21, 2014 | Career Management, Recruiting
What is the best career advice you have ever been given? That is one of the questions we ask in our in-depth interview with potential candidates. Some candidates, quickly assessing the risk-reward of an off-the-mark answer, try to guess what we want to hear. If you...
by John G. Self | Nov 7, 2014 | Career Management
Are you doing what you love to do? Are you any good at it — are you in the top 10 percent performance-wise of hospital executives in the country? If you are not consistently a top performer, then prepare yourself for the probable bad news — your career will not go...
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...
