by John G. Self | Jan 3, 2018 | Career Management, Healthcare, Leadership
LISTEN ON iTUNES As we begin a new year, it is a time for reflection, not on our jobs or the economic and political machinations that may affect them, but on our values, our ethics — on our very integrity. In my industry, healthcare, I am always stunned and saddened...
by John G. Self | Dec 28, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
When looking for an expert source on what good leadership is, look no further than every graduate school management program in the nation, or any of the thousands of strategic consulting companies in the free world. Everyone has an opinion. Everyone knows that truth...
by John G. Self | Apr 15, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — While the money we make for the work we do is important, we must always remember to maintain perspective as these four vignettes reveal. A top interim physician CEO, a JohnGSelf + Partners team member, did not start his career in medicine. ...
by John G. Self | Mar 4, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
The customer is King. That is an immutable truth in business. In healthcare, like every other business known to mankind, we have customers. In business there are two groups of leaders, one that understands and respects that truth and then walks the talk. The other,...
by John G. Self | Feb 25, 2015 | Healthcare
One of the most challenging businesses to run in America is a hospital. It is one of the most complex business models ever devised by man, said Peter Drucker, and it takes a special type of leader to run one, and run it well. When it comes to the complexity and which...
