by John G. Self | Sep 20, 2013 | Stories
Who inspired you, that person who encouraged you to become the best you could be? Was it a teacher? Was it an early boss? Was it someone you met in a later time of your career? For me it was four people. It began with a rotund journalism teacher with a flattop...
by John G. Self | May 17, 2013 | Stories
It seems like only yesterday that I was sitting in front of my Western Union teletype in the police press room, a man in his mid-20s trying to make sense of something that made no sense at all – the death of five children in an apartment fire caused by adult...
by John G. Self | Mar 18, 2013 | Healthcare, Recruiting, Stories
Why am I an executive recruiter? That is a question that I am frequently asked, given my background — from being a newspaper reporter and the first director of Hermann Hospital’s acclaimed Life Flight program and national marketing manager for the aircraft company,...
by John G. Self | Mar 11, 2013 | Stories
We mourn the loss of Sandy Lutz, a PriceWaterhouseCoopers Health Institute leader and former Dallas bureau chief of Modern Healthcare. She was an amazing reporter, author and, above all else, a great wife and mother. She was also a friend to so many of us in...
by John G. Self | Oct 22, 2012 | Healthcare, Leadership, Recruiting
There is a great advantage for an executive recruiter to have once worked as a crime writer and investigative reporter. You are not afraid to ask tough questions, and you can more easily detect the self-serving spin. In the business of poker, seasoned card players...
