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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.

Frances Hesselbein: A Friend of the Heart, Forever

January 23, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

Like many who knew her, I was naturally grieved to learn that Frances Hesselbein had died. None of us were surprised, of course. Frances had lived a good, long life, well-loved and productive. At the same time, though, along with the natural grief for someone who was so respected and so highly thought of, as …

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Filed Under: Journal, Knowledge Services, Personal History Tagged With: Drucker (Peter), Hesselbein (Frances), Knowledge Services, Knudsen (Helen Lafferty), Lafferty (James), Leader to Leader (journal), leadership, leadership development, Levy (Barrie Schessler), Rosenstein (Bruce)

Personal History: Knowing Frances Hesselbein

January 23, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

Introduction The following content is a compilation of blog posts about Frances Hesselbein. These were written by me to honor Mrs. Hesselbein and to share with my blog readers what I learned from her, and how she and I interacted with one another. As we got to know each other over the years, she liked …

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Filed Under: Journal, Knowledge Services, Personal History Tagged With: Atlantic Charter, Business Week (magazine), Churchill (Winston), Clinton (Bill), Cohn (Gary), corporate social responsibility, CSR, Drucker (Peter), Drucker Society of New York, Edersheim (Elizabeth), Fortune (magazine), Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, Girl Scouts of the USA, Global Women's Leadership Summit (2016), Hegelsem (Sally), Hesselbein (Frances), Igel (Lee), International Rescue Cmmittee, Knowledge Services, Knudsen (Helen Lafferty), Lafferty (James), Le Colonial (restaurent), leadership development, Living in More than One World (book), McDonald (Duff), McMaster (H.R.), Miliband (David), New Yorker (magazine, Newsweek (magazine), Presidential Medal of Freedom, Roosevelt (Franklin D.), Sachs (Jeffrey), Strategy + Business (magazine), Sustainable Stakeholders Framework, The Definitive Drucker (book), The Golden Passport (book), Work is Love Made Visible (book)

The Power of Purpose

January 19, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

Work is Love Made Visible is Eminently Practical [The following is a post included in a compilation of blog posts about Frances Hesselbein. I wrote these posts over a period of time as she and I got to know one another, as I wanted to honor Frances and recognize her superior work in and her …

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Filed Under: Journal, Knowledge Services, Personal History Tagged With: Goldsmith (Marshall), Hesselbein (Frances), McArthur (Sarah), purpoose, Work is Love Made Visible (book)

The Hours: A Follow-Up

December 16, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Despite the Cyberattack at The Metropolitan Opera, There’s Even More to Think about with The Hours A week-end conversation with friends about last week’s post brought up a terrific idea. Let’s go with it. The topic had to do with some of my thoughts about Kevin Puts’s and Greg Pierce’s new opera, The Hours (just …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: der rosenkavalier (opera), Metropolitan Opera Association, Pierce (Greg), Puts (Kevin), The Hours (opera)

A New American Classic from The Metropolitan Opera

December 6, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

The Hours: A New Spin on Just How Good American Opera Can Be For those of us who go often to the opera, we long ago learned that an evening at the Met brings much joy in the pure art of singing. Indeed, nowadays, here at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, a serious effort is being …

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Filed Under: Journal, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Cunningham (Michael), DiDonato (Joyce), Fleming (Renée), McDermott (Phelim), Nézet-Séguin (Yannick), O'Hara (Kelli), Pierce (Greg), Puts (Kevin), Woolf (Virginia)

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Recent Posts

  • Frances Hesselbein: A Friend of the Heart, Forever January 23, 2023
  • Personal History: Knowing Frances Hesselbein January 23, 2023
  • The Power of Purpose January 19, 2023
  • The Hours: A Follow-Up December 16, 2022
  • A New American Classic from The Metropolitan Opera December 6, 2022
  • Vancouver: A Very Different Work of Public Art November 13, 2022
  • Vancouver: Christ Church Cathedral November 3, 2022
  • Vancouver: A Very Welcoming City October 29, 2022
  • Crossing Canada by Train (4) October 19, 2022
  • Crossing Canada by Train (3) October 19, 2022
  • Crossing Canada by Train (2) October 18, 2022
  • Crossing Canada by Train (1) October 17, 2022
  • Aboard Amtrak’s Maple Leaf to Toronto October 10, 2022
  • Vienna: A Third Memorial October 9, 2022
  • Vienna: Remembering the Holocaust October 2, 2022

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