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Time-life navigation key ideas and concepts
We typically work on the familiar, with the familiar, while the world moves on. Without some kind of intervention what else could we do?
Don't wait until there is an obvious need or desire—it will be much too late to take the right action.
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Underlying information and conceptual foundation
TLN Concept map (very complex conceptual view)
Time-life navigation © (TLN) key ideas
Key ideas (below) have an indicator to suggest the major relevant TLN dimension:
= Time dimension of the TLN synthesis;
= Life dimension; 
= Navigation dimension;
= Time and Life combined; etc.
Navigating toward tomorrows: the roads ahead; unimagined futures (created by complex events that are beyond prediction and sometimes without precedent). Imagine the contrast and discontinuities between the worlds of 1850, 1900, 1945, 1960, 1980, 2000, 2020 and onward.
About change and towards tomorrows
Who could have been prepared?
In a world with no concrete destinations or answers a testable life-long work approach (key idea 3 below) is essential.
Mental patterns
unavoidably and recurrently rooted in yesterday—our life lines
Need situationally valid terrain (social, economic, political etc.) awareness—a foundation—for effective future directed decisions.
A knowledge system view
the environment in which we're now embedded. A combined strategic view of: 1) the changing social and economic picture; 2) a static view of economic content and structure; 3) offerings—with a drill down to their strategic origins—and receptors; 4) specialized knowledge and knowledge workers; 5) the management revolution and its strategic function; 6) productivity of knowledge and what is it?; 7) individual knowledge workers; 8) information challenges; 9) the linkages from knowledge and information to other topics; 10) Recent technology headlines from NYTimes; 11) About change; 12) Toward tomorrows.
TLN Weblog (story titles recently seen in the news).A core challenge in a DEVELOPING WORLD: How do we work on things that aren't on our radar. Which ones? When? How much lead time is needed? To complicate things even further, the content of our radar is time dependent—who had iPods on their radar 10 years ago? And then there are the things on our radar that need to be abandoned—probably before we want to. This abandonment is both a what and how issue (popularity of Buicks in China vs. the US).
The capacity to navigate is at the core of social and economic development.
Adequate, systematic work approach (multi-generationally) is needed. Conscious time investments. How can we work on the unseen and unfamiliar? What are the powerful conceptual resources? What's on my radar
Investing time in navigating life and time in a world moving toward unimagined futures
Time-life navigation © web site prototypes a modular and comprehensive framework (blueprint) and tool kit for designing and navigating the necessarily unfamiliar roads ahead.
This web site is a CORE strategic resource and is designed to integrate other resources. It is also a CORE diagnostic tool. The framework is also designed to be the core of our PIM (personal information management system) and action system
The framework encompasses our entire lives—both present and future—in a world moving in time.
Site is not just something to read, rather it is something to DO:
Attention shifting; explore, time visualization, geographical visualization, cultural visualization, think, note areas of interest and disinterest, reflect on what these areas mean for the future and your future; Consider interest drill down depth and expansion width; Situation diagnosis; Conceptualize developmental directions and desires; Calendarize (when desired?, what foundation?, time required including several false starts and abandoning undesirable present elements, when to start?); Imagine starting afresh while building on strengths.
Adequate thinking should create new expectations (mental patterns). When reality diverges from these expectations there may be a significant opportunity that needs to be explored.End result: conceptually valid life long work approach—time-life navigation. See TLN end result and action
Opportunities of a life-time (see "personal opportunity thinking points"
Where's the evidence
This free site is a comprehensive, life-long (multi-generational), self-development, work approach blueprint and tool kit. I call the approach Time-life Navigation©.
The site is a synthesis of five inter-related dimensions moving in time:
- organization evolution (main change vehicle)
- life design (main change beneficiary)
- work life (career) evolution (main change initiator)
- financial investing (golden goose)
- life navigation system (action sequencer)
These five dimensions are layered on a time "terrain" awareness foundation.
The site blueprints a Life-TIME investment system -- investing TIME in NAVIGATING life and time in a world moving toward unimagined futures.
Concepts in four key areas:
Organization evolution key concepts:
a calendarized strategic work plan that encompasses:
- Foundational awareness:
- Changing social and economic picture -- see Within these Walls
- A period of profound transition
- Knowledge, the key resource in the economy -- its productivity a key competitive element
- A society of organizations
- Stages of organization development
- Developmental desires
- Organizations of the future
- Realities of time (everything outlives its usefulness) and competition
Free blue print for working on organization evolution preceded the right foundation creation
- Social and economic contribution exploration, thinking, and design
- Informed systematic investment work and work investments
- Attention directing, perception and new mental patterns. Making mental connections
Career management key concepts:
- Managing knowledge means managing oneself
- The Next Society
- Career work map & career work plan
- The Essential Drucker -- book introduction -- biography and book overview
- Adventures of a Bystander
Life design key concepts:
- What do you want to be remembered for?
- Life area identification, thinking, design, and work plan
- Information work
- An informed master action list that feeds a daily schedule and work plan
- Foundations and opportunities
Financial investing:
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Change: Things are, like they were, until they're not—and its up to us to make the "not" come to pass. Imagine someone in the past—1950, 1960, 1990 or whenever—asserting that they had a plan, were performing well, making good progress or any other positive assurance. This type assurance is contrary to development and thinking ahead. At the least it is naive—it ignores competitive effects (existing and new) and new events (trends) that introduce a discontinuity. Past economic and social conditions The notion 'don't fix IT if IT ain't broke' is blind, uninformed and misses the point—we are embedded in an unfolding world. IT probably presumes there's a solid-state IT in a solid-state world and that somebody has a deep lasting emotional attachment to IT. (Consider the subsequent rocky roads of the companies used as examples in In Search of Excellence.) In reality, most of us care that IT makes our lives better tomorrow and this is rarely linear—an outgrowth or extension of yesterday. An informed ongoing diagnosis is needed—part of a systematic work approach. See Peter Drucker's “From Analysis to Perception—The New Worldview” and Edward de Bono's Water Logic Just because things are calm doesn't mean things are OK or there is nothing to do. It may be the calm before the storm. When the storm hits it pays to not be lost in yesterday—often for years. It pays to have tomorrow well underway. It pays to know what to do and what not to do. It pays to be prepared to exploit opportunity when it presents itself. Hopefully the exploration of this site will help in knowing what to do and what not to do.
See Peter Drucker's on "The Change Leader" in Management Challenges for the 21st Century; avoiding the high risk "Bright Idea" in Innovation and Entrepreneurship; his Entrepreneurship and Innovation interview; The Future that has Already Happened; and about management and change.
The paragraphs above contain assertions which can be valuable navigation tools. Assertions can be tested—true, false, a probability, or a time horizon. The attention re-focusing can provide an opportunity for reality terrain exploration. The Experts Speak by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky
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Toward tomorrows
Toward unimagined futures
The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism (1939) There’s still lots to learn here!!!!
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