Tim- good to see your human values paper reference the KM evolutionary picture of Debra Amidon. Here you can see that she is one of the world's most human navigators including this network map of 100 KM's greatest human inquirers.

Thanks to Debra I've had the chance to interview about 30 of her KM friends and they would all concur with the urgency of your mutuality message - indeed many would make their core human progress definition of KM - to systemise human relationships as well as transactions in the way we design organisations.

We now have a databank of over 100 corporate implosion cases (NASA, Railtrack, Ahold, Andersen.., let alone those cited at "Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America"
) demonstrating that evolutionary survival in the mutuality age of relationship value requires different mathematical auditing with systemically open cultural intelligence governance than the monopoly by transactional measurement. It should surprise nobody that the most human goals like safety require relentless consistency over time sustaining open interdisciplinary ways of sharing understanding and doing. So companies without any context-patterning metrics are now not only leading nowhere worth any intelligent human's time but tracking towards 100% value destruction. Its interesting how lawyers and professional mediators in London are becoming very supportive of the idea to benchmark a 10 billion audit human system for understanding the 5-year forward contextual prospects of large organisations beginning with those that call temselves the global 5000. This is a diametrically opposite demand from Delaware lawyers' dictation of short-term shareholder value. Fortunately, for human ethics, it is already systemically transparent who will win-win the great valuation games now afoot. Chris Brand at EU Knowledgeboard. posted by ..., 2:15 PM  permalink