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Developing a work approach that is adequate to the challenges ahead
a world moving toward new and different futureS

Current location: Time-Life Navigation (TLN) :: Main site entry page (doorway to a life-long action system and work approach—not just a page to read)

Link exploration markers (suggested): Foundational necessity ; Content existence awareness

Life-TIME investment system

Investing time in navigating life and time in a world moving toward unimagined futures

Five inter-related elements moving in time: organization evolution

(main change vehicle); life design (main change beneficiary); work life (career) evolution (main change initiator); financial investing (golden goose); and a life navigation system (the action sequencer).

These five dimensions are layered on a time "terrain" awareness foundation

TLN Synthesis

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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 . Typically we work on the familiar with the familiar. Need to periodically recreate.

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 ? What are the time spans ? A life-TIME investment system is needed.

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 . Site provides the convenience of a blueprint that can be edited rather than having to create from scratch. (What's next?)

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 and What's next?

Opportunities of a life-time (see "personal opportunity thinking points" )

Where's the evidence that this can be ignored without important consequence?

Some key pages

Time-life navigation resources

Other links

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Summary: Multi-generational Time-Life Navigation work approach blueprint for a world moving toward unimagined futures—a strategic resource.

Sharing a link to this page gives others the opportunity to explore the site and decide on its usefulness in THEIR lives.