Searching for YOUR most valuable ROADS AHEAD
In a world relentlessly moving toward new and different futureS
This site provides the elements
for creating a "life time" work approach
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Life-TIME Investment System
(a road map and brainscape © for time investing)
For a world always moving
away from yesterdays
and toward unimagined futures.
Working on the familiar (routine tasks)
with the familiar (capabilities)
won't get you to tomorrows.
What follows is part of a
foundation for future directed decisions
Time investing is the only way to escape
the decaying worldS of yesterdayS — its not a one time event.
The 1850s, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, 1990s … are gone
and they aren't coming back.
Many people seem to believe that a rising tide lifts all boats.
But does it, really?
Look around the worlds of yesterdays.
How much of the things being done then
had any lasting value?
(Disco, 8-tracks, B&W TV, rotary dial phones,
downtown shopping, fashion, bleeding, Blockbuster, …)
How much of what you're doing today is really
effective or future directed?
Organization change events are with us for the roads ahead.
Amazon link: How The Mighty Fall
… the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations
is a destabilizer.
Because its function is to put knowledge to work
—on tools, processes, and products;
on work;
on knowledge itself—
it must be organized for constant change.
It must be organized for innovation;
and innovation,
as the Austro-American economist
Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) said,
is “creative destruction.”
It must be organized for systematic abandonment
of the established, the customary, the familiar,
the comfortable
— whether products, services, and processes,
human and social relationships, skills,
or organizations themselves.
It is the very nature of knowledge
that it changes fast and
that today's certainties
will be tomorrow's absurdities. — Peter Drucker
Extrapolating yesterdays is hazardous to your future.
But what if you're currently doing great?
“Only fairy tales end
‘They lived happily ever after.’
Success always obsoletes the very behavior
that achieved it.
It always creates new realities.
It always creates, above all,
its own and different problems.” — Peter Drucker
You can only invest your time
in the things on your
radar
You can only utilize the things on your radar
What you primarily see around you is yesterday
and the dead past.
Without continuous, systematic on-going work
your radar will be infested with yesterday
rather than opportunities.
Because we live in a world that is always heading
into a non-linear future …
… we need a way to force ourselves
to look for and at things
that aren't on our radar (with some credible help)
and decide what to do about them.
At the same time we need a way
to narrow down the infinite number
things we could look at.
The previous ideas need to rest
on a solid foundation for future directed decisions.
The topics below are “top of the food chain” radar ammunition
It would be a really good idea
to read all of the following before clicking the links.
As you're reading remember the non-linearity of time.
All of the below are connected through TIME
and are moving in TIME
They are part of the elements
for creating a “life time” work approach
mentioned at the top of most pages.
They will help you figure out
where you want to go (your most valuable roads ahead)
and how to get there.
And then do it again …
This is a blueprint for a genuinely interesting life.
A radar list will be helpful in your exploration and life navigation.
It could include important, relevant topic areas and where you found them.
There is a limit to the number of topics a person can effectively calendarize.
One of the difficulties of getting to tomorrows
is having access to the right brain-addresses.
Your radar list should be your future brain-address book.
Every line in the image below is a brain-address
or at least a jumping off point toward the right brain-road to pursue.
Please don't ever begin to believe that
a permanent answer or magic bullet exists.
There is a constantly receding horizon — no final answer.
Just alternatives — appearing at different times.
Life is a navigation challenge
in a world moving toward unimagined futureS.
The pages below are meant to be explored and selectively harvested.
They are ATTENTION-DIRECTING TOOLS
They provide a form of LIFE “insurance.”
Having a complex mental landscape
combined with periodic abandonment and refocusing work
will prevent your from traveling the wrong roads for too long.
Every road eventually becomes the wrong road.
Having a complex mental landscape is also
some protection from those pushing “snake oil.”
Everything above and below is about time investing
for the purpose of time-life navigation.
All of it is part of a foundation for future directed decisions.
You should want to know how the world works
and how you can navigate this reality.
We are already embedded in
a knowledge society, a society of organizations, and a network society.
Attention !!! (refocusing attention always comes first) ::: LTIS for TLN — Quick Look ::: The World is Full of Options by Peter Drucker (a social ecologist) ::: Contents of books by Peter Drucker ::: What do you want to be remembered for? ::: Foundations for future directed decisions (What do you need to know before you decide … ?) ::: Knowledge: Its Economics and Its Productivity ::: The Daily Drucker (a foundational resource with an unparalleled field of vision) ::: TLN text site map (quick view of the Time-Life Navigation SM © site's scope. Over 500 html pages, 100+ PDFs, 1000s of images. Which of these elements are part of your future?) ::: Time-Life Navigation SM © (about living in a world moving toward unimagined futures) ::: Adventures in time (can you connect this idea with someone or a topic listed here?) ::: Adventures of a Bystander ::: Simplified TLN system view ::: The Unfashionable Kierkegaard ::: The Changing Social and Economic Picture ::: Economic Content and Structure ::: Knowledge System View ::: Selected TLN articles from the news (Society :: events :: stuff happening)
Work life brainscape:
Early Career Work (for knowledge workers and ambitious knowledge technologists—a foundation for future directed decisions)
::: Because life-time employment is gone
Networking is necessary
:::
Résumé and Interview Planning for your years and the decades ahead
:::
New job game plan: when you get a new job, task, or assignment — this is very, very important
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Learning
Managing Oneself (as a unique INDIVIDUAL human being over a lifetime in a changing world—beginning NOW! This should be your foundation for everything else)
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Career and Life Guidance from Peter Drucker
:::
:::
The Essential Drucker :::
("A coherent and fairly comprehensive" introduction to management)
::: Managing Oneself for Effectiveness (a step up the performance ladder — The Effective Executive Preface !!!!! Outline !!!)
:::
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The Educated Person ("defines society's performance capacity")
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Living in More Than One World
How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire Your Life by Bruce Rosenstein :::
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CEO
:::
Board member :::
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Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There both by Marshall Goldsmith
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::: The Second Half of Your Life (important to start by your mid-30s) :::
Career evolution : Professional Grade (another door)
Organization evolution (essential to creating and maintaining a healthy, modern society. Somebody has to want it and do it. From working in a basement or garage to Built to Last) ::: Management, Revised Edition ::: Managing the Non-Profit Organization ::: The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization ::: The Definitive Drucker ::: Leadership ::: Production (from "specs" to user reality) ::: Managing the Small Business ::: Managing the Family Business: see December 28 and 29 in The Daily Drucker
Apple: Apple II, Lisa, Mac, Laptops, iPod and iTunes and other online stores, iPhone, iPad, iCloud …
always aiming high
Innovation and Entrepreneurship ("This is a practical book, but it is not a "how-to" book. Instead, it deals with the what, when, and why; with such tangibles as policies and decisions; opportunities and risks; structures and strategies; staffing, compensation, and rewards. Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. … The test of an innovation, after all, lies not its novelty, its scientific content, or its cleverness. It lies in its success in the marketplace. … A successful innovation aims at leadership … successful entrepreneurs aim high. They are not content simply to improve on what already exists, or to modify it. … Successful businesses, businesses that are today in the right markets with the right products or services, are likely ten years hence to get three-quarters of their revenues from products and services that exist today, or from their linear descendants. In fact, if today's products or services do not generate a continuing and large revenue stream, the enterprise will not be able to make the substantial investment in tomorrow that innovation requires.") ::: Innovation ::: Entrepreneurship ::: Entrepreneurs and Innovation
Life lines (a view from above) ::: Life design (as your verb or noun) ::: Financial investing (developing an informed capacity) ::: Life management system (LMS) (a conscious navigation system from yesterdays to tomorrows) OR Time-management
Practical thinking (knowing what to to do) ::: Mental patterns (our self-organizing information system. In the final analysis the future of society depends on what's between our ears) ::: More thinking resources by Edward de Bono
Using conceptual resources (as brainroads © and brainscapes ©)
Conceptual resource digestion process
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TLN conceptual resource file listing
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Concepts and ideas …
Calendarization (from topic introduction to what's the next action—really?)
What's next? in your life and time
Where will your current time usage lead?
bobembry contact info (suggestions or whatever) ::: Conceptual resource assistance ::: Partners wanted ::: Resume (Bob Embry) ::: Personal (Bob Embry) ::: Bob Embry's Time-Life Navigation © Blog ::: Twitter | Bob Embry ::: Twitter | ti4tomorrows ::: Facebook | Bob Embry ::: LinkedIn | Bob Embry ::: delicious | bobembry ::: googleme (unexpected ways to view site connections) ::: TLN search (semi-functional Google site search)
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