by John G. Self | Oct 16, 2013 | Career Management, Recruiting
If you ask late night talk show hosts like David Letterman or Jay Leno what frustrates them the most, it is the guest who comes on the set and sits there like a lump, answering questions but hardly working up a sweat; a mechanical interview of no insight or real...
by John G. Self | Sep 9, 2013 | Career Management, Recruiting
Over the past 20 years I have spent much time with early careerists, hundreds of freshly minted graduate school would-be senior executives. They all think they know where they are going, but clearly, the vast majority do not know how to get there. So they ask for...
by John G. Self | Jul 1, 2013 | Healthcare
Like everything else in healthcare, the outplacement industry is changing. The services they offer are being scaled back based on what health systems and hospitals are willing to spend. The timing couldn’t be worse. With the arrival of the Patient Protection and...
by John G. Self | May 31, 2013 | Stories
CHICAGO — Everything goes in spits and spurts. That wisdom was from my Grandmother Jackson. Note the capitalization of the “G” in grandmother. Ms. Cora was worthy of that respect. She created and she sustained so many wonderful memories of my youth and, day...
by John G. Self | Apr 10, 2013 | Leadership, Technology
In our increasingly cryptic world of digital communication – an email filled with shorthand here, a text or tweet here, there and everywhere – I am wondering if this is just a temporary fad, driven by connected hordes of Gen Xers and the Millennials who use tweets and...
