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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)

Opera: 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)

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)

Vancouver: A Very Different Work of Public Art

November 13, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A Somewhat Enigmatic Work We found something completely different in one of our walkabouts in Vancouver. When our friend Kevin Manion was visiting us from Seattle and we were heading toward the harbor, we came across another work of art, this one unlike anything we had ever experienced before (assuming we consider a church something …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Manion (Kevin), Storey (Alan), Vancouver (Environment Canada and Oceans & Fisheries Building), Vancouver (Public Art)

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