by John G. Self | Oct 30, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
Being a medical doctor does not automatically qualify someone to run what Peter Drucker described as …one of the most complex of all human organizations ever devised by man – a hospital. We are on the front end of an emerging school of thought that says...
by John G. Self | Oct 21, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
There is an abundance of complexity in the daily operation of a hospital that affects quality of care and patient safety, and contributes to the new estimate of more than 440,000 preventable deaths each year. Back-stabbing politics and abusive managers should not be...
by John G. Self | Aug 14, 2013 | Healthcare, Recruiting
Recruiting a key executive, outlining client expectations, pushing him or her through new employee orientation, and then hoping for the best. The results are usually mixed and mixed is not an outcome hospitals can afford in this challenging economic R&R...
by John G. Self | Aug 7, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
We will find out fairly quickly who the best of the best is at running hospitals. The Affordable Care Act and the inevitable deficit reduction will weed out the top performers from the soon-to-be unemployed. History does repeat itself. In the early 1980s, a savvy...
by John G. Self | Jul 17, 2013 | Healthcare
In healthcare, with very bumpy roads ahead of us, executives will be forced, finally, to marry their talk, the posters on their walls, and their walk – that their people, the talent that make a hospital a success or a failure, must be our most important asset. We...
