by John G. Self | Dec 23, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
I enjoy the thrill of finding something new and good and it is very gratifying when others agree. Music, books, and people — leadership talent — are among my favorite interests. I collect music. I have eclectic tastes that range from opera to hip hop. Now that, as...
by John G. Self | Dec 20, 2013 | Stories
The best time to be in a retail bakery is in the morning. The aroma is overpowering. Freshly baked coffee cakes and breakfast danish loaded with cinnamon and almonds. The smell of breads and cakes just out of the oven. Wow, the aroma alone will sell the products....
by John G. Self | Dec 13, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
Please enjoy this post from December 2012 and share your hiring and interview tips in the comments. A CEO I knew, who was a Chief Operating Officer of a small academic medical center, once bragged that he interviewed every new hire for his organization. He called...
by John G. Self | Nov 8, 2013 | Career Management, Leadership, Stories
Over the past five-plus years, I have written more than 550 blogs, a veritable book of career advice, lessons on leadership, and stories from my misbegotten youth working in my parent’s retail bakery, as well as my early career experience as a crime writer and...
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...
