by John G. Self | Jun 20, 2014 | Healthcare
In healthcare, we get what we pay for. What? Many quality/safety experts, public policy wonks and those who pay most of the costs would beg to disagree – in the strongest possible terms. That chorus includes the families of the hundreds of thousands of patients who...
by John G. Self | Jun 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Ten years ago, executives at Monster.com and other computerized job boards were smugly predicting the death of retained search as expensive, inefficient relics of a by-gone era. Today, the retained search firms, particularly those in healthcare, are reporting strong...
by John G. Self | Jun 13, 2014 | Stories
Tonight is the full moon. It is Friday the 13th. These two events do not occur very often. For some people, this is pretty creepy. “Despite many myths, the full moon does not actually embolden criminals, bring about births or make people mad, studies show. And...
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 | Jun 4, 2014 | Healthcare, Leadership
The other day, in a meeting with a client in a congested urban city on the West Coast, I noticed that the first 10 minutes were taken up with parking. Everyone shared, in some cases bragged, about where they found a parking space. I was amazed, but apparently this...
