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

Chief TLN (time-life navigation) officer

It is not possible to work on things that aren't on our radar. This page is a radar defining and loading tool. This page is another example of an attention directing tool.

A top of the food chain multi-stage, strategic terrain view

Foundational familiarity very helpful (notes from each suggested):

Toward unimagined futures—from analysis to perception
The Management Revolution
Information challenges
Primary management principles (Part of The Essential Drucker)
Leadership
People Decisions
On Innovation and entrepreneurship
Toward new organizations
Managing in The Next Society
The Daily Drucker and related worksheet (just a quick scan)
Defining the Duties Of the American CEO
CEO challenges
Creating a Great Rest of Your Life

pyramid to dna

Connections: David Packard; Benjamin Graham (The Intelligent Investor ::: Postscript :: "this one enterprise, plus later-organized affiliates"); See setting up new and different "businesses" to introduce innovations in Peter Drucker's Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Forbes 400 Richest People in America; Jack Welch

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Organization evolution definition and informed developmental desires
The changing social and economic picture: a world moving toward unimagined futures
Life lines
Strategic relationships: Organization evolution and individual life lines embedded in the changing social and economic picture
Foundations and opportunities
Opportunities for what?
Organization evolution views
Organization evolution work
Time spans
Healthy financial architecture (HFA) diagram
Organization evolution and the small business
Linear view of organization evolution
Organization forms over time
Organization evolution patterns
Why great companies fail
Organization evolution concept map
Broader concepts
Embedded in a knowledge system
But, what about our expectations
Creating new expectations
A structural view of Peter Drucker's work
Conceptual resource system
A puzzle view
A systematic blueprint
Integrating the blueprint into daily work
Time-life navigation resources

Organization evolution defined: moving through the stages of development in a world moving toward unimagined futures. Expanded definition. Developmental desires: "What is our final destination?" Informed: Really? "And then what?" The remainder of the page is a tool for exploring organization evolution and informed developmental desires.

Current strategic system (Is this OK?)

The changing social and economic picture: a world moving toward unimagined futures

Within the changing social and economic picture we are all in different places on our life lines.

Organization evolution, the changing social and economic picture and individual life lines are inter-related

What's in it for us?

Organization evolution views

Organization evolution work (a simple view)

Time spans of effective decisions

Organization evolution relies on a healthy financial architecture

Organization evolution and the small business
Small business management

Linear view of organization evolution

Different forms of organizations over time

Patterns of development (note the different surrounding society, economy, technology at different points in time)

For some interesting IBM background reading see Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, Appendix 2, "The New Speculation in Common Stocks." Additional thoughts later?

Why great companies fail (see below)

Organization evolution concept map

Broader concepts

We are embedded in a knowledge system (click over offerings)

What expectations are embedded in our brains?

Creating new expectations

A structural view of Peter Drucker's work

A system for discovering and implementing relevant conceptual resources

A systematic work approach

Integrating the work approach into daily work

Time-life navigation resources (calendarize):

Who is Peter Drucker?
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
The Next Society
http://homepage.mac.com/bobembry/studio/biz/conceptual_resources/authors/peter_drucker/next_society.pdf
Edward de Bono introduction
Warren Buffett
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)
Tables of content
CyberTimes Navigator (used by "NYT newsroom for forays into the Web"). Probably requires free site registration ???

Chief TLN Officer is needed in navigating toward tomorrows

Page may need a little more tweaking (later), but it is usable for its intended purpose. Theory of the business and strategic chain need to worked in.