by John G. Self | Jan 31, 2017 | Healthcare, Leadership
In healthcare there are a couple of immutable business truths: Never has a merger of provider organizations resulted in lower costs for the consumer, the claims of Chief Executive Officers notwithstanding. Leaders who put their employees first, creating a culture...
by John G. Self | Dec 11, 2015 | Career Management, Healthcare
This is a blog post about career management for healthcare CFOs. Really it is. But to get to the point I want to make on career management I need to, once again, plow through the issues of improving quality of care, making care safer, reducing costs and enhancing...
by John G. Self | Nov 20, 2015 | Healthcare
In the American jumble of providers and services that we like to call a “healthcare system”, there is a phrase that is the enemy of all that we are supposed to stand for — Just good enough. This simple little phrase is infected with implications most of which are not...
by John G. Self | Oct 28, 2015 | Healthcare
When hospitals choose higher margins/EBITDA/growth in earnings — whatever you want to call it— in exchange for bare-bones staffing that results in harm to patients, I have concerns. Patient care and safety should not be penalized because hospitals are willing to cut...
by John G. Self | Oct 16, 2015 | Career Management
This was one of our most popular blog posts in 2014 and has continued to receive a great deal of traffic this year so we thought it must be worth sharing again. In executive offices and administrative suites of hospitals all across America, there are some really good...
