unimagined futures

pyramid to dna

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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Thinking Canvas Purposes: to see the action landscape—social and economic environment in time; thinking through the right actions; and determine the appropriate reminders to be entered in one's action management system.

Thinking canvases are attention-directing tools

Thinking canvases are thinking blueprints which are part of an action system (what do I have to do … to …?)

  • A thinking canvas may be an early step in calendarization. Or a part of blue hat thinking for figuring out where one is and where one goes next

  • Useful in concepts to daily action, collecting thoughts on a topic or creating and portraying a system view (radar design). What is the composition of an action area and what de-mystification would be useful?

  • Can be done on printer or copy paper OR electronically (mind mapping or illustration software)

  • Schedule a reminder to work on the canvas

  • Spend some time creating a future directed decision foundation (FDDF). How broad does the canvas need to be? Does it need to capture the entire universe of the main topic? Does it need to capture related universes?

  • Schedule reminders to carry out conclusions

  • Test: Are the conclusions adequate to the challenges ahead?

  • Test: Is my action management system adequate to the challenges ahead?

blank thinking canvas

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


Content 101

mind map

Examining the clues:

radar

Anxiety diagnosis (below)

diagnosis

steven seagal title chart thinking canvas

thinking canvas ipad pop science


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Curio Welcome

Screenshot of Zengobi Curio. Used with permission from Zengobi

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Brainstorm

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Class

Screenshot of Zengobi Curio. Used with permission from Zengobi

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General

Screenshot of Zengobi Curio. Used with permission from Zengobi

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Mindmaps

Screenshot of Zengobi Curio. Used with permission from Zengobi

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Numbers

Screenshot of Zengobi Curio. Used with permission from Zengobi

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Recording

Screenshot of Zengobi Curio. Used with permission from Zengobi

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Scribbles

Screenshot of Zengobi Curio. Used with permission from Zengobi

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thinking canvas

TO/LOPOSO/GO

thinking canvas content

TEC-PISCO framework

TEC-PISCO

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The content for the diagram above came from Edward de Bono's The Happiness Purpose


Icons for thinking canvases

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures


Coming to conclusions

thinking canvas master


From conclusions to implementation calendarization

layered mind maps

Strategic system moving in time: full size and icon views


life design to daily work


work maps to model calendars

Model calendars


Thinking canvas software:


Thinking canvas examples: (calendarize)

  1. Tag structures and tag maps
  2. What's next
  3. Life design concept map
  4. My radar (top level)
  5. Knowledge system view
  6. It's our mental patterns
  7. Time-Life Navigation Payoff
  8. Time-Life Navigation site map
  9. Strategic work plan
  10. From blue print to daily work
  11. Organization evolution concept map
  12. Linear view of organization evolution
  13. Healthy financial architecture
  14. Why great companies fail
  15. Intel map-Connect, connect, connect
  16. Work and effort directions
  17. Chief TLN officer
  18. Guided tour links

Brainscape enhancement and topic assessment

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conceptual resource assistance

Radar: attention :: enhancement :: organization

Conceptual resource assistance available


At the present time this is a prototype site. I add, remove, and redesign content based on my own unfolding comprehension of the time-life navigation © (TLN) landscape . This means that you might want to periodically revisit relevant pages.

Site design goals (beta—September 2010): My minimum goal is to provide enough "sign-posts" that serious site users don't find themselves in major negative situations because they didn't get the TLN memo. My desired goal is to provide "sign-posts" to a meaningful life—both for individuals and society. One supreme sign-post is to set your sights on achievements that really matter, that will make a difference in the world. The second half of your life is the major opportunity for full effectiveness and fulfillment.

Many of the books that were available when I first started working on what I now call "time-life navigation" have gone out of print or are hard to find. You can still use the content of the book outline pages to identify topics of interest and to search Amazon Books for topics or phrases.


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