A good business and management book should provoke us. It should force us to reassess practices, habits and assumptions. It should be unsettling, exposing gaps in our knowledge and actions, yet at the same time exciting and enchanting, offering new ideas and options.
As I reviewed the ones I read in 2024, it struck me how often the best books prodded and poked, revealing new insights and recasting my thinking.
Before Mr. Goodwin’s death, the couple set out to revisit the 1960s – she has been an aide to Mr. Johnson as well before becoming a presidential historian – and the result is homage to their unfinished romance but also our collective unfinished romance with that era. Harvey Schachter is a Kingston-based writer specializing in management issues. He, along with Sheelagh Whittaker, former CEO of both EDS Canada and Cancom, are the authors of