Self-Knowledge and Knowledge Management Applications

Decisions depend in part on self-knowledge, which helps a person separate truth from error. Because it lives inside each individual, it can be reshaped over time, and it differs from one person to another as a sense of self shifts in many directions. Inner faculties like this help us make sense of incoming information and notice reasoning that does not hold together.

Weed-Schertzer places the human person at the centre of knowledge management and shows how self-knowledge takes shape and operates within that field. The book distinguishes three linked strands: explicit knowledge, which is concrete and can be passed on; tacit knowledge, which resists being handed from one person to another; and self-knowledge, the inward kind. It examines how each strand works in a business setting and how each becomes more useful when applied alone or in combination with the others.

The work is aimed at professionals and students in business, management, strategy and technology, and at anyone studying those disciplines.