by John G. Self | Nov 16, 2008 | Healthcare, Leadership, Stories
The great thing about my job is that I get to meet and talk with a wide range of current and former health system and hospital executives. Most of the time these encounters occur at ACHE events or other conferences. Occasionally they are chance meetings in hotel...
by John G. Self | Nov 5, 2008 | Career Management, Recruiting
Would you get engaged to marry a person who you met only through one or two video conference sessions? You would be crazy. That is exactly what an increasing number of top-tier executive search firms are asking their clients to accept. With increasing frequency, some...
by John G. Self | Oct 26, 2008 | Career Management, Recruiting
JOHN G. SELF, Founder & Chairman | JohnMarch Partners, Inc. Dallas, Texas Saturday, October 25, 2008 – I just returned from an 11-day trip, visiting clients in Indianapolis, Atlanta, Newark, and Buffalo. As I was driving to my client’s office in Buffalo, it began...
by John G. Self | Oct 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
BALTIMORE, October 7, 2008 — Healthcare leaders who believe that nothing much will change in the way we deliver and fund services should find a copy of the Sunday New York Times. In a two-page frontal assault on this nation’s fiscal mess, former Secretary of...
by John G. Self | Sep 19, 2008 | Career Management, Recruiting
A major hospital is ready to make an offer to a prized senior leadership candidate. This is the candidate they want. The other finalist is impressive, but not a spot-on fit. Then the worst possible thing happens. Problems with the number one candidate’s background...
