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Current page elements: (1) Dimensions (2) Concepts (3) Social ecology (4) Focus (5) Functions (6) Capacity (7) Key question (8) Related links (9) TLN resources

Go next: Navigating toward tomorrows (foundation layer 2—terrain view for future directed decisions)

Free Time-Life Navigation Web Site

Designing and navigating our futures: The site is a synthesis of five inter-related elements: organization evolution (main change vehicle); life design (main change beneficiary); work life (career) evolution (main change initiator); financial investing (the golden goose); and a life navigation system (the action sequencer). I named this synthesis Time-life Navigation ©.

The site provides a comprehensive framework and tool kit for designing and navigating our futures in these five dimensions moving in time—major opportunities. Quick visual site and concept overviews (reading not necessary—just page scrolls at this point).

Personal opportunity thinking points.

Over 20 years of full-time work have gone into developing what has become a unique, comprehensive, free web site. When I began work on the concern that underlies this site, personal computers, general access to the Internet and many of the site's conceptual resources were still unimagined futures. Over time the nature of the underlying concern naturally changed …

Synthesis

This synthesis is at the core of social and economic development plus social wealth creation. It is also at the core of long-term self-interest. See payoff . This site is not just something else to read. It is at the core of what to do.

We live in a world moving toward unimagined futures yet our mental patterns are unavoidably and recurrently rooted in yesterday (it can't be otherwise). This incongruity is bound to lead to major difficulties—expectations not realized, marooned or lost—when a familiar "road" becomes disjointed. Multiple examples can be seen in the daily news.

The major focus of this site is navigating the unfamiliar roads ahead—not the familiar road behind. The unfamiliar road ahead is the conceptual space between today and the outer limit of concern on the changing social and economic picture time line (concept map image on left). These unfamiliar roads ahead are embedded in complex external systems that are dynamic (private, public, and social sectors; a society of organizations; a multitiered transnational economy and ecology; complex political structures; the NEW educated person--link). The opportunities of a life-time reside on the roads ahead, not on the road behind. The remainder of our lives occurs on the roads ahead. Currently the time-life navigation © site could be considered the ultimate resource for organizing the work associated with this navigation challenge.

Navigation implies intelligently choosing our destinations and then taking the action needed to reach those destinations, but how can we choose from unseen or unfamiliar options?

This time-life navigation © site provides a comprehensive action framework plus tools for developing a systematic, life-long work approach (in each of the five dimensions above). This framework is convenient, comprehensive, flexible and multi-generational. Our work approach serves our long-term interests only when it is in harmony with the disjoints and realities evident in the changing social and economic picture and related knowledge system view. Our work approach is sensible when it helps us navigate toward tomorrows and unimagined futures—major opportunities.

Part of the comprehensive action framework blueprints a process of getting TO long-term, relevant concepts and then from concepts to daily action. This is a Life-time investment system!

The work approach leads to a work plan. Users initially explore the site and identify future time investments for creating a time-life navigation © (TLN) work plan. This exploration is divided into two strategic parts. The first part includes this page and is part of creating a crucial background and conceptual foundation for working on the five TLN dimensions moving through time. The second part begins with an exploration of the elements on the time-life navigation site map ©.

The capacity to repeatedly create a valid, time-life navigation © work plan is a substantial personal asset . The site provides a mechanism for doing this—multi-generationally.

While CEO of GE, Jack Welch often said: "Control your destiny or someone else will." This site offers a conscious approach toward that objective.

This site repeatedly raises the question: "what do I have to do (informed in each of the five dimensions) to have the kind of life (informed) I want (informed)?" and then provides a blueprint and resource links for working on this question.

Navigating toward tomorrows provides more details and is the beginning of the work approach:
http://homepage.mac.com/bobembry/free/invitation.html
One of the purposes of the next page is to begin exploring a conceptual foundation and terrain view for future directed decisions.

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

Guided tours available

Related links:

1. Site recent changes
Life-TIME investment system (main site entry page)
2. Site exploration and navigation links
3. Current strategic system status (Is this OK?)
4. Google site rankings
5. Ways to use the site
6. Site end result and action
7. Links on and to site entry page and beyond. Key idea list
   Page can be printed and used as a
   preliminary worksheet or
   for making notes.
8. Site guided tour links Resource examples (blips for your conceptual radar)
9. Site content slide show
10. Site participation
11. Graphical site map and primary work map

Time-life navigation resources (calendarize):

1. Who is Peter Drucker?

2. Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself
   http://www.leadertoleader.org/knowledgecenter/journal.aspx?ArticleID=26
   After reading article use web browser's FIND command
   to locate "people decisions"
   then see People Decisions

3. The Next Society
   http://homepage.mac.com/bobembry/studio/biz/conceptual_resources/authors/peter_drucker/next_society.pdf

4. Edward de Bono introduction

5. Warren Buffett

6. The Essential Drucker (pdf) or The Essential Drucker html (includes people decisions mentioned above); The Effective Executive; The Daily Drucker (a very wide view and work approach)

7. Tables of content

8. CyberTimes Navigator (used by "NYT newsroom for forays into the Web"). Probably requires free site registration ???

After you've had a chance to explore the site, I would appreciate any comments or suggestions—see Contact info in navigation bar at top of page.

Bob Embry's Weblog (RSS Feed is available for convenient access. For Mac users NetNewsWire Lite is a free news aggregator. Windows users might want to search VersionTracker (try: rss) or Google (rss reader windows xp) for something similar)