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Treading Lightly by Karl-Erik Sveiby, Tex ScuthorpeThe hidden wisdom of the world’s oldest people (Jun 2006) |
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Australian Aboriginals taught themselves thousands of years ago how to build a sustainable society in our fragile landscape. In a unique collaboration, a Swedish knowledge management professor finds out from an Aboriginal cultural custodian how they did it, and what we can learn from them. We are consuming more than our earth can provide. In Australia, cities and towns struggle to maintain a reliable water supply, climate change triggers droughts which devastate farmland, and fish stocks are running low. It is increasingly clear that we are heading towards collapse if we don't change direction. In this book, Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe show how traditional Aboriginal stories and paintings were used to convey knowledge from one generation to the next, about the environment, law and relationships. They reveal the hidden art of four-level storytelling, and discuss how the stories, and the way they were used, formed the basis for a sustainable society. They also explain ecological farming methods, and how the Aboriginal style of leadership created resilient societies. Treading Lightly takes us on a unique journey into traditional Aboriginal life and culture, and offers a powerful and original model for building sustainable organisations, communities and ecologies. It is a compelling message for today's world.
Book The hidden wisdom of the world’s oldest people Link Karl-Erik Sveiby's Knowledge Management website Media File Mini-clip video interview at KMAP 2006 Past Event Sociotechnical Lecture Series 28 Sep 2006, British Computer Society's SocioTech group Westminster Business School, London, United Kingdom The Knowledge Powerhouse for the Future 11 - 13 Dec 2006, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Person Quotation Weblog Entry Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 13 June 2007
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