by John G. Self | May 29, 2013 | Career Management, Healthcare
How do I hunker down? How do I get through this? When will things get back to normal? For healthcare executives who are approaching the end of their careers and find themselves asking these three questions with greater frequency, I have some bad news. It is not...
by John G. Self | May 6, 2013 | Healthcare, Recruiting
“At most companies, people spend 2 percent of their time recruiting and 75 percent managing their recruiting mistakes.” — Richard Fairbank, CEO at Capital One, Forbes Magazine, April 2013. Over the next five to seven years, as the healthcare industry faces a...
by John G. Self | Apr 29, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
One of the toughest decisions a long serving CEO has to make is when to leave the organization – to retire or take on another career challenge. “Go out on top” is the ideal goal but more than a few executives, for a variety of reasons – financial concerns, unfulfilled...
by John G. Self | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
How many of us LOVE to sit on a cramped airplane for 30 to 40 minutes or more, either at the gate or in a seemingly endless line of planes for takeoff, without any explanation from the crew regarding the reason for the delay, how many planes are ahead of you, or how...
by John G. Self | Apr 17, 2013 | Recruiting
There are more than a few candidates whose job/employment history is less than stellar. In everyone’s career stuff happens and in most cases these situations can be managed effectively without inflicting major damage to future employment opportunities. However, when...