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.
Lead like a SEAL
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The dramatic clandestine rescues by Navy SEALs and their daring raid on Osama Bin Laden’s lair may make their work...
An executive regimen that works
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If you can be a better leader through healthy living, the key to success in your job may lie in...
How to cultivate a sponsor
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Finding mentors has been one of the holy grails of career progression, hammered into us by innumerable career consultants and...
Observing the obvious: the Holmes method
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Today, when emotional intelligence is treasured, Sherlock Holmes would seem like a poor role model for government executives. The man...
How to say No (nicely)
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No. The word jars us. Just two letters, but it makes us decidedly uncomfortable. In the workplace, Yes is the...
The villains of decision-making
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Our days are a series of decisions, some minor, some medium, some major – and the occasional one humungous. It...
Antidote to garbled presentations
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Presentations make the world go round, particularly in government. Unfortunately, too many of them are ineffective. Incomprehensible graphics, too much...
Sorry, you’re in sales
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Your first instinct might be to deny it, but you are probably a salesperson. Most government executives are, even if...
Achieving shared responsibility
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Getting subordinates to take responsibility in the appropriate situation can be a mind-boggling pursuit. Often we find ourselves lurching into...