Paperback octavo, good condition, full-page colour photos centre spread, black & white drawings, covers & spine lightly creased, edges minimally foxed, minor edgewear. 262 pp. This book by Karl-Erik Svelby, a Swedish knowledge management professor, is a unique journey into traditional Aboriginal life and culture, and offers a powerful and original model for building sustainable organisations, communities and ecologies. Beautiful Colour paintings of Aboriginal mythology are by Tex Skuthorpe, an Aboriginal cultural custodian. Together, they show how traditional Aboriginal stories and paintings were used to convey knowledge from one generation to the next, about sustainability, law and relationships, which is a different economic model to modern Western industrial culture. A compelling message for today's world.

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Title

Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People.

Publisher

Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Crows Nest

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

174114874X

ISBN 13

9781741148749

Binding

Soft cover

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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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