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Current page elements: (1) Synthesis; (2) Tour; (3) Background; (4) TLN key ideas; (5) Key pages; (6) Other key pages; (7) TLN resources; (8) File lists; (9) Other links; (10) Page content review and summary; (11) Yahoo group; (12) Site searches; (13) NYT Technology headlines

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Developing a work approach that is adequate to the challenges ahead

TLN site exploration and navigation

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

arrow Synthesis arrow

bb Phone quick tour marker. Tour is a sample. Following tour see recommenced path.

bb Google site rankings
bb Underlying information and conceptual foundation
TLN Concept map (very complex conceptual view)

Time-life navigation © (TLN) key ideas

dot bb 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.
(bb jump to personal opportunity thinking points)

dot 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).

The capacity to navigate is at the core of social and economic development.

dot Adequate, systematic work approach (multi-generationally) is needed. Conscious time investments. How can we work on the unseen and unfamiliar? What's on my radar? What are the powerful conceptual resources? 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

dot 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? Navigation dimension of the TLN synthesis

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

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

Key site pages to explore:

  • Organization evolution definition
  • bb Site conceptual content slide show—a sampler. (bb jump to other links)

    Concept maps: Organization evolution; career evolution; life design; financial investing; life navigation system (LNS); life management system (LMS); mental patterns; ramping up our capabilities

Other key pages

dot Site map (strategic work map—see usage and attention directing tools )

dot Site usefulness

dot Site action and end result

dot Site exploration map (for beginning the work approach)

dot Categorized list of site files

dot Identifying economic and social development in the visible world


Time-life navigation resources

  1. Who is Peter Drucker? An intellectual journey (CNBC) and Biography
    http://leadertoleader.org/about/press-releases/drucker-documentary.html
    http://www.leadertoleader.org/knowledgecenter/leaders.aspx?AuthorID=17
  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://economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=770819
  4. Edward de Bono introduction
  5. Warren Buffett
  6. The Essential Drucker (includes people decisions); The Effective Executive; and The Daily Drucker
  7. CyberTimes Navigator (used by "NYT newsroom for forays into the Web"). Probably requires free site registration ???

File lists

  1. Links to and from site entry pages (a convenient way to explore links on the site entry pages)
  2. Alphabetical list of site files (sorted by file title rather than file_name.html)
  3. Text site map (categorized by file directory)
  4. Related links (foundational and wider terrain views)
  5. Work info links (my work history and future interests)

bb Other links

  1. Conceptual resources (tables of contents 40+ books, sample worksheet, interest profile worksheet and concept to daily action system) HTML book list
  2. Current strategic system (Is this OK?)
  3. Chief TLN officer (strategic terrain view)—top of the food chain
  4. Guided tour links (foundation building—also see foundations and opportunities)
  5. Resource system view (information and technology resources for employees). Work life terrain view
  6. Time-life navigation site participation (ways to help publicize and enhance the site)
  7. Discussion (clarification or contact) bb jump to summary
  8. Contributions or Payments

Page content review

  1. Page top (Navigation bar; TLN elements and dimensions; Synthesis; Google site rankings; Underlying conceptual foundation; Concept map)
    tln components
  2. Time-life navigation key ideas (World moving in time; Navigating toward tomorrows; Mental patterns and life lines; Knowledge system view; News view; Capacity; Work approach is needed; What's on my radar?; Time spans; TLN web site (function and action); Personal opportunity thinking points)
  3. Key pages to explore Organization evolution definition; Site concept overview slide show)
  4. Other key pages (Site map: usage and ADT; Site exploration map; Categorized list of site files; Site overview; Life design raw materials—developments in the visible world)
  5. Time-life navigation resources (Peter Drucker 1, 2, MKMMO, TNS, TED; TDD; Edward de Bono; Warren Buffett)
  6. File lists (ways of locating specific pages)
  7. Other links (Conceptual resources; Current system observations; Chief TLN officer; TLN Guided tours; Resource system view—info and tech ar WL terrain view; Site participation; Contact, contribution, and payment info) bb top

bb Summary: Multi-generational Time-Life Navigation work approach blueprint for a world moving toward unimagined futures—a strategic resource. bb (jump to review)
pyramid to dna

Information as the organizing principle for work and perception as a new necessity
Linked articles
  1. The Management Revolution and What is Management?
  2. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  3. Information challenges
  4. Leadership (What needs doing?)

flash What do I want on my remaining life lines?

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

The TLN blueprint Yahoo Group is a way to keep this on your radar and keep track of site enhancements.

Bob Embry's Weblog

For first time site (http://homepage.mac.com/bobembry/) visitors: The main site entry page followed by Designing and navigating our futures is the path in the designed exploration process—a doorway to genuinely interesting time investments and the core of long-term self-interest.

The preliminary site entry pages provide a crucial terrain foundation exploration. To be really useful you need to go slow and explore each discreet thought as it occurs in time and mark or note locations for further time investment. You might find it useful to print these foundational pages and make notes before proceeding (our lives are embedded in this dynamic situation moving in time and that's one of the things that makes this site useful).

A more printable version of this page (use as checklist).

If needed, you can locate this page by Googling: tln exploration navigation