In this unique journey into traditional Aboriginal life and culture, a European business-management professor and an Aboriginal elder collaborate to create a powerful and original model that western societies can use to build environmentally sustainable organizations, communities, and ecologies based upon the same Aboriginal traditions that allowed the Aborigines to create sustainable societies in very fragile landscapes.
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This book may prove a tipping point' for many people...this is one of the most thought-provoking books I have read in the last few years.' Brian Henshall, Emeritus Professor of Management, University of Auckland."The book becomes a fascinating cross-cultural dialogue...a bold attempt to show the intelligence of Aboriginal culture and values and to also show how much the world's oldest living culture can teach us about the world we inhabit today'National Indigenous Times
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Karl-Erik Sveiby is a professor of knowledge management at Hanken Business School–Finland. He is the author of 12 books, including Managing Knowhow and The New Organizational Wealth. Tex Skuthorpe is a Nhunggabarra man from Nhunggal country in northwestern New South Wales and is a custodian of traditional law and stories for his community.
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This review is from: Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People (Paperback)
For a long time we thought that the Australian Aboriginals almost
vanished because of their inferior culture compared to ours. Treading Lightly convincingly demonstrates that the bad fate of this indigenous people had nothing to do with the superiority of our culture or knowledge. On the contrary, the Aboriginal culture has existed much longer than the Western civilization. The battle was mainly fought on a biological level, where our diseases proved to be stronger. Having realized that the Aboriginal culture is the most sustainable that has so far existed on Earth, Sveiby asks himself and Tex Scuthorpe what are the elements of sustainable knowledge. Being an expert on Knowledge Management Sveiby goes forward to suggest how modern organizations could become truly sustainable. Treading lightly is obviously a path breaking argument in a discourse that has just begun.
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