Harvey Schachter
Harvey Schachter is a writer, specializing in management and business issues. He writes three weekly columns for the Globe and Mail and The Leader’s Bookshelf column for Canadian Government Executive, and a regular column and features for Kingston Life magazine.
Harvey was editor of the 2004 book Memos to the Prime Minister: What Canada Can Be in the 21st Century. He was the ghostwriter on The Three Pillars of Public Management by Ole Ingstrup and Paul Crookall, and editor of Getting Clients, Keeping Clients by Dan Richards.
A McGill commerce graduate, Harvey spent more than 15 years in a variety of positions at The Kingston Whig-Standard, including editor and planning and promotions manager. He won two National Newspaper Awards for his writing and a national Owl Award for a marketing program he created at the newspaper.
Bookshelf: Leadership in Turbulent Times
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Over the past five decades, Harvard historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has devoted herself to chronicling the ups and downs of...
Bookshelf: When
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A few years back, consultants with ghSMART told us the biggest question we face is “who”: Picking staff is our...
Bookshelf: The Four Tendencies
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At work, we are often trying to satisfy a bundle of expectations, which can be boiled down to those expectations...
Bookshelf: Creating Great Choices
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We learned in grade school that one plus one equals two, but when we are faced with two choices in...
Bookshelf: Barking up the Wrong Tree
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Did your high school valedictorian go on to achieve greatness? High schools select their valedictorians because they show promise and...
Bookshelf: The Captain Class
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Yogi Berra, Maurice (The Rocket) Richard, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, and Derek Jeter. Five elite athletes who led championship teams....
Just Say What You Want
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Radical candour sounds rather outré as a prescription for government executives. Careful caution is often the norm. But consultant Kim...
Creative Change By Jennifer Mueller
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Innovation is prized and praised these days at work, even in government. We are supposed to relish creative change. But...
Managing the Jerks
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Leading the Unleadable By Alan Willett Your team probably includes some difficult people. You may not have chosen them –...
Candid Camera
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If you want to learn from mistakes in how to handle an interview, you could take a lesson from Jimmy...