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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)

Guy’s Journal: Frances Hesselbein on Leadership

September 12, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Those of us practicing knowledge services have long understood the role of leadership in the success of our efforts. Whether it’s KM, knowledge strategy development and implementation, or any of the other management methodologies relating to successful knowledge sharing, we learned long ago that it’s leadership that makes knowledge services happen. If we want to …

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Filed Under: Journal, Personal History Tagged With: Hesselbein (Frances), Knowledge Services, Knowledge Sharing, leadership, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh (GSPIA)

Can We Talk?

January 15, 2021 By Guy St. Clair

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

A New Site, Beginning with Additional Thoughts about Mobile’s Mardi Gras

March 13, 2018 By Guy St. Clair

Since the first post on November 14, 2009 Sharing Guy’s Journey has been intentionally characterized as “personal.” Indeed, as I write professionally about knowledge services, I’m careful to refer to any publications having to do with knowledge services, knowledge sharing, and knowledge strategy development as strictly “professional.” An example is  SMR’s Knowledge Services Blog, intended for colleagues …

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Filed Under: Personal History Tagged With: Blackwell (Cartledge), Carnival, Festivals, Fifty Funny Fellows, History Museum of Mobile, Joynt (Steve), Kirkland (Scotty), Knowledge Services, Knowledge Sharing, Mardi Gras (Mobile AL), Mobile Alabama, Mobile Carnival Museum, Mobile Museum of Art, Zweifel (Karyn Kay)

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