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About Guy St. Clair

Guy St. Clair teaches at Columbia University in the City of New York. His subject is knowledge services, an approach to managing intellectual capital that merges information management (including technology management), knowledge management, and strategic learning. His personal interests are varied, with primary attention given to all forms of classical music (especially opera), art (special interest in the works of the Impressionists), design (focusing on Art Nouveau), travel, and, to a certain extent, natural history (he is a great lover of elephants, thinking of the elephant as one of the noblest of creatures). Guy thinks of himself as something of an old-fashioned flâneur, observing what he sees around himself and learning from what he sees.

Can We Talk?

January 15, 2021 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago, in a New Year’s Day message (An Optimistic Perspective for 2021), I raised the question of whether or not it was possible to be optimistic after all we have been through in 2020. Eternal optimist that I am, my response was a resounding yes. There were still reasons to be optimistic. Then the events …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Personal History Tagged With: Conversational Communityship, Conversational Leadership, Gurteen (David), Hoville (John), Knowledge Services, Knowledge Sharing, United States Capitol Attack

An Optimistic Perspective for 2021

January 1, 2021 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

Though the title of this journal entry indicates that I’m going to be looking ahead – and I am – looking ahead often requires that we look back as well. This not only provides perspective, but also can demonstrate that our efforts are not futile. What has succeeded before can succeed again. Certainly we can’t …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Personal History Tagged With: COVID-19, Gore (Al), United States - Current Affairs, Wehner (Peter), Wordsworth (William)

The Metropolitan Museum at 150 – A Special Group of Personal (and Professional) Perspectives

December 11, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

As we move into the final weeks of this year which – truth to tell – few of us can find the words to describe, I am taking it upon myself to describe something very special from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We New Yorkers know and love this museum (once the city’s primary tourist …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, History, Personal History Tagged With: art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art – 150th Anniversary, New York City – Museums

Honoring Frances Hesselbein

November 23, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago, I participated in a very special event. It was Frances Hesselbein’s 105th birthday celebration on November 1. In observance of the occasion, friends and colleagues gathered for a festschrift in her honor. And this was a different kind of festschrift. Instead of the usual reading of scholarly papers, for this festschrift we …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: Drucker (Peter F.), Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, Hesselbein (Frances), Leader to Leader (journal), Rosenstein (Bruce), University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership

Cleveland’s Arcade – An American Art Nouveau Treasure

September 25, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

Since a visit to Cleveland in mid-2019, it has been my intention to share a few observations about the city (or the part I visited, mostly on the shore of Lake Erie and what is generally referred to as Cleveland’s “historic downtown”). I had been to Cleveland before, at least twice, both times on business. …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Personal History Tagged With: Arcade (Cleveland), art nouveau, Cleveland Ohio (Elephant Painting), Cleveland Ohio (Global Center for Health Innovation), Cleveland Ohio (Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel), Cleveland Ohio (Huntington Convention Center), Cleveland Ohio (The Arcade), Republican Convention 2016

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Recent Posts

  • Can We Talk? January 15, 2021
  • An Optimistic Perspective for 2021 January 1, 2021
  • The Metropolitan Museum at 150 – A Special Group of Personal (and Professional) Perspectives December 11, 2020
  • Honoring Frances Hesselbein November 23, 2020
  • Cleveland’s Arcade – An American Art Nouveau Treasure September 25, 2020

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