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2.0 The Flow Map



Everywhere you are is a field. Fields within fields. Whenever you talk with someone you create a field. And that field exists within the field of the space you are in. It may be a coffee shop with defined boundaries and limits or outside on a sidewalk without them. But energetic fields exist everywhere we are. We may give them words to describe them or there may be no word to describe what is there.

Now in this field are resources. Things we can use to create or do things with. If we look at a business contextual field, such as a coffee shop, there are coffeemakers, the beans themselves, the baristas, the table, the chairs, the internet, the music, the building, the electricity, everything that is utilized to create the product of you being able purchase an extra hot mocha.

These two words, field and resource, are essential to understanding any business system and the job you have within it.

These are three words from the map below called the the flow wheel. The idea being that these 10 concepts are universal structure concepts that allow you to map out, or design, or understand any job in existence. Its a universal conceptual map to organize any job.

Why is this important?

Our world is run by our business practices. Business comes first. and every human is measured by their contribution to their culture and business is the God of this world, at least in this day and age.

And every individual is going through a school system to eventually enter the job market to earn a living.

Whether they want to or not.

So it makes sense to understand just what a job is and what it does in the larger business system it is part of.

The word job can have a very foul taste in many peoples vibe. There are many people who don't want a job at all. They just want to live life as the first nations people use to do.

To build some type of society where we don't have jobs but perhaps contribute in so many little ways in all facets of life takes understanding just how this business world works right now.

Humans are continually doing activities. Whether related to work or not, whether being paid or not, humans are forever moving things and themselves about.

IN a business context these activities are usually in reference to the products that the business they are in is creating. But there are many activities that seem to have nothing to do with the primary products, such as cleaning the bathrooms.

But it can be accepted that activities, and the act of doing them constitute a very important part of doing a business. Its a very vague word like all the words on this map. They are vague words because they are structure words. They are grand organizing words. They are at the top of the conceptual ladder.

Think of all the type of activities there are. Cleaning and building and counting and jumping and biking and hiding and the list goes on and on. In every business you can do many different activities but you are always doing activities. Its a universal concept. It exists in all business contexts.

This may seem obvious and easily understood but don't negate the significance of these words patterned together. If you have never seen a set of these words like this together, you may wonder why. What is obvious to me as a pattern designer may be so weird to someone who has never seen them before. Especially arranged in a circle.

So a key to this map is memorizing this map. And that is true for any of the maps in this operating system. The true magic and power of the maps don't work until you memorize it and work with people who have done the same. If I say see the flow map...go to activities...you know exactly to what I'm referring.

The product is the grand reference point for any business. Coffee shops make coffee and snacks. Sports coliseums produce games. Restaurants produce meals. Studios produce films. Contractors produce houses.

These products create the informational pathways that make that product possible. They exist within a field, or several fiels, have all the resources necessary to create the products. People have jobs that do activities in these fields of resources that create the products.

Now we come to one of the most important concepts, that of relationships. The products are made for someone and built by someone. The resources get to the business through someone. All of these are the relationships of a business.

The products have relationships that integrate the business into the culture(s) it exists within. And this is another very obvious statement. of course! And thats what structure words are...very obvious simple words you can use to organize all other words or concepts that you can use to organize your job.

One idea is that when you use this map to organize your own job,you will then be able to understand everyone elses job so much easier. We need to learn through association. Once you put what you know in this map, you will see why these words are significant in this pattern.

Another idea behind this map is that at some point you can design your ideal job. If you could do anything how would you design that ideal job?

And your relationships are pretty much the key to your whole business. And this is word is at a very vague level.

You can add the next words path and strategies and combine them...into relationship path strategies.

(To be continued)

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