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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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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 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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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 174114874X
- ISBN 13 9781741148749
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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