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Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management
The frame of knowledge
The literature of knowledge management goes back over three thousand years. In the Western world, it began with The Instructions of Amenemopet. Written around 1,000 BC, this book was a training manual for Egyptian civil servants and a guide to wise professional practice. Fragments of this document survive in the Bible. We can still read traces of Amenemopet's advice to young managers in the Book of Proverbs (Aitken 1968: 3; Johnson 1998: 10; New Jerusalem Bible: 964-5).
Johnson identifies the wisdom literature of the Bible as intensely practical. The Hebrew word for wisdom - chokmah - "means skillfulness in dealing with the job that is before us," writes Johnson (1998: 8), comparing it with the Greek word techne, "the rational application of principles aimed at making or doing something well."
Many scholars contrast the wisdom embodied in techne to the wisdom embodied in sophia. The contrast is accurate in a linguistic sense. Br...
Knowledge Management
The frame of knowledge
The literature of knowledge management goes back over three thousand years. In the Western world, it began with The Instructions of Amenemopet. Written around 1,000 BC, this book was a training manual for Egyptian civil servants and a guide to wise professional practice. Fragments of this document survive in the Bible. We can still read traces of Amenemopet's advice to young managers in the Book of Proverbs (Aitken 1968: 3; Johnson 1998: 10; New Jerusalem Bible: 964-5).
Johnson identifies the wisdom literature of the Bible as intensely practical. The Hebrew word for wisdom - chokmah - "means skillfulness in dealing with the job that is before us," writes Johnson (1998: 8), comparing it with the Greek word techne, "the rational application of principles aimed at making or doing something well."
Many scholars contrast the wisdom embodied in techne to the wisdom embodied in sophia. The contrast is accurate in a linguistic sense. Br...
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