Leadership and Organizational Sustainability

13 Knowledge management of sustainability for self-realization

Edith Zapata Campos and Elia Socorro Díaz Nieto

DOI: 10.4324/9781003371335-13

Introduction

The complexity of the human being and his ability to face new tasks at each stage of his life take on a new challenge by posing environmental sustainability as an urgent issue derived from accelerated consumerism and the misuse of natural resources. As a thinking and complex entity, human beings have evolved biologically and in knowledge. His natural need for self-fulfillment leads him to seek personal development satisfaction with an integrating character, as a society and as part of the ecosystem in which he operates. Considering knowledge as the most important asset and one that increases ...