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SLA at 115: Welcoming Our Future

April 1, 2024 By Guy St. Clair

Guy St. Clair was recently invited to write for the re-launched Information Outlook, the professional journal of the Special Libraries Association. Guy had previously written SLA at 100: From “Putting Knowledge To Work” to Building the Knowledge Culture—A Centennial History of SLA (The Special Libraries Association) 1909-2009, published in 2009. An online version of SLA’s …

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Filed Under: Journal, Knowledge Services, Personal History, Specialized Librarianship Tagged With: De Gruyter Saur, Hesselbein (Frances), Knowledge Culture, knowledge management, Knowledge Revolution, Knowledge Services, Knowledge Sharing, leadership, Root (Elihu), Seneca, SLA, Special Library, Specialized Librarianship, strategic learning

Applied Knowledge Services: A New Approach to Management and Leadership

February 8, 2023 By Guy St. Clair

[Guy St. Clair: This post is co-authored with colleague Barrie Schessler Levy, with whom I wrote The Knowledge Services Handbook: A Guide for the Knowledge Strategist (a companion volume to Knowledge Services: A Strategic Framework for the 21st Century Organization). Both titles are published by De Gruyter in Munich and Berlin. This post was first …

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Filed Under: Journal, Knowledge Services Tagged With: Creating Conversational Leadership (book), De Gruyter (Publisher), Diversity & Inclusion, Gach (Jake, Garfield (Stan), Hesselbein (Frances), Hovell (John), Knowledge Services, leadership, Levy (Barrie), management, Manion (Kevin), Organizational development, SIKM Leaders Community, The Knowledge Services Handbook

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)

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)

The Power of Breath

September 4, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

[A comment from Guy: I can think of no more appropriate way to observe the beginning and the end of this summer than to offer this post from my new friend Donita Volkwijn. She is with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, where she is the Manager, Knowledge Management. She and I met recently when I attended a …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: "I can't breathe.", changetheworld, Conversational Leadership, equity, Floyd (George), hope, Hovell (John), Labor Day (USA), leadership, Memorial Day (USA), Volkwijn (Donita)

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