Developing a work approach that is adequate to the challenges ahead
a world moving toward new and different futureS
Concepts to daily action
Our performance in life and time is limited by the composition of our mental radar. It may also be limited by the processing—our mental patterns—of that content.
"To know and not do is to not yet know" - Leo Bescalla
Concepts to daily action is a form of calendarization that can employ thinking broad and thinking detailed. Thinking canvases may be useful.
About concepts and important strategic examples
Related: Attention shifting; TLN system view; relationship summary; knowledge system view; strategic components; time spans; TLN process overview
Related: Mental patterns; The Management Revolution (application of knowledge to knowledge); Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Leadership (what needs doing); Managing in the Next Society (TOC or last section from The Economist); Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself
Acquisition and mental processing of developmental ideas
How can we get beyond highlighting, underlinging, post-in notes, and margin notes?
Related: Tag structures
Concept sources
- Foundations for future directed decisions
- Tables of content tool (html list)
The Daily Drucker- News analysis and perception
- Time-investment exploration blueprint
- Amazon.com clue tracking
- Internet directories and pages: Google, Yahoo, Directory of directories
- Concepts maps
- Chief TLN Officer
Strategic work plan: from blue print to daily work overview
Related: What's on my radar?; Life design overview; Life navigation system overview
Work flow to get from printed material to work plan
Related: Mac OS X workflow (pdf or JPEG); Henry Jones diary; TO-LOPOSO-GO; hard drive folder structure; tables of content list; scanner; text database; Use mouse to select text phrases, Mac OS X clipping services to transfer text to outliner; outline (arrange structure); notebook page 1; notebook page 2; notebook TOC; OPML export/import; mind mapping, mind maps, thinking canvases; thinking and information; action; scheduling applications ; computer usage; writing tools; project list; what's next; A modified form of David Allen's Getting Things Done system may be appropriate (text summary and work flow diagram); Edward de Bono's Six Action Shoes
Topic thinking guide
I suggest you focus on one topic at a time
And then first ask: What do these issues, these challenges MEAN for our organization and for me as a knowledge worker, a professional, an executive?
Once you have thought this through, ask:
What ACTION should our organization and I, the individual knowledge worker and/or executive, take to make the challenges of this topic into OPPORTUNITIES for our organization and me?
AND THEN GO TO WORK!
The topic referred to above can be elevated by using the ideas in thinking broad and thinking detailed to get to the highest strategic level, mind mapping some alternatives, and then possibly re-perceiving the topic
Reading
Dense reading and Dense Listening
What did you learn? How can you put that knowledge to work?
Most books are too detailed. Publisher's have a desired word count to make worthy of publication. Figure out what's the core stuff that you can use (that can be effective). To begin this imagine yourself in an unfolding world and how you touch (will touch) that world. If what you do doesn't touch other people then what's the benefit. And what's the long term. Also you never know who you're going to work for in the future.
This page presents an overview of a system for getting from concept to daily action. It is a blueprint that can be adapted to your needs and ambitions. This system is part of a work approach that is adequate to the challenges ahead.
Life-TIME investment system (A primary site entry point)
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