by John G. Self | Jun 1, 2017 | Career Management, Leadership
Will there ever be a time in your career when you will not need a mentor, a trusted advisor who can be a good and knowledgable listener and who will tell you the truth even when they know it is not what you want to hear? Every CEO I have ever met has had days or...
by John G. Self | Mar 4, 2016 | Leadership, Stories
After two spectacular seasons at the University of North Carolina, Michael Jordan decided to go pro. He chose to forgo his senior year and his degree to enter the NBA draft. It all came down to an economic decision. He was a certain multi-millionaire in waiting....
by John G. Self | May 13, 2015 | Career Management
For aging executives, here is the cardinal rule: do not make it easy for prospective employers (and they’re typically young recruiters) to discriminate against you.Sadly true, some recruiters and employers are age bigots. If you are older than their mind’s-eye...
by John G. Self | Apr 10, 2015 | Career Management, Stories
My dad was a hard working business owner. He worked long hours and had great success as a retail baker. He did it, first and foremost, to be a good provider for his family and to help his sons to have a life that was better than the one he had. In his youth and as...
by John G. Self | Apr 6, 2015 | Leadership
When I was a 24-year-old crime writer and investigative reporter working in Houston I had no idea what my career end game should be. It was not that I just assumed that I would always work in the news business; I did not think about it at all. Later, as I moved into...
