by John G. Self | Feb 7, 2010 | Leadership
So many leaders are now talking about onboarding. Why? Because it has become the new fad. Far too many executives are looking for the “silver bullet” answer to their human capital challenges, and they grabbed this because it is a talent acquisition...
by John G. Self | Jan 26, 2010 | Healthcare, Leadership
Sweeping healthcare reform has stalled. Many healthcare leaders I know are relieved. They saw this as a good idea gone wrong as only Congress can do. The national focus now seems to be shifting to deficit reduction and job creation, both critical short-term...
by John G. Self | Jan 18, 2010 | Career Management
In his book Why Smart Executives Fail, Sydney Finkelstein provides an excellent example of what can happen to a company when they forget that, in the end, it is employees who will make the difference between success and failure. Healthcare providers, in...
by John G. Self | Jan 14, 2010 | Career Management
There is a direct path between the talent an organization recruits and their quality of care and financial performance. Yet most organizations use a mish-mash of internal and external resources without regard to consistency of the processes used to find the executives...
by John G. Self | Jan 5, 2010 | Leadership
Your employees are 70 percent of your organization’s net worth. Gary S. Becker, a Nobel laureate in economics, estimates that 70 percent of a company’s challenges are met successfully by its human capital – the men and women we call employees. Without employees – the...
