By Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
The Biggest Obstacle: Leading Versus Managing
The year: 1989. Florida Power & Light had just won the Deming Prize, Ja ...
The Big Squeeze: The X-Type Matrix
This is the third article in a row I have written on leading, building the ...
Churchill’s 39 Desks: Structure That Frees
For me, the operational essence of the leader dilemma is this: How do I say ...
The Barracuda Leader: Visuality and Lunch
The barracuda is an ambush fish, capable of speeds of 25 mph and feared by ...
VISUAL SCHEDULING: A PROBLEM-SOLVING MECHANISM
Visual Scheduling is a plain two-dimensional format that maps out which pro ...
CARVE OUT A NEW ROLE FOR SUPERVISORS
Letting value-add associates own the improvement outcome I call the visual ...
EMPOWER THE VALUE-ADD LEVEL THROUGH WORKPLACE VISUALITY
Some mistakes managers make at the start of a visual conversion are serious ...
WHAT DOES GROWTH MEAN FOR YOUR COMPANY?
Our discussion continues, the center of which is the question: “What does ...
BORG THINKING: STANDARDIZING TOO SOON
In the last few issues of The Visual Thinker, we put the foundation in plac ...
HOW VISUALITY ALIGNS: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATA, INFORMATION ...
From sales to design, procurement to planning, fabrication to processing, r ...
THE SIX CORE QUESTIONS: YOUR WINDOW ON STRUGGLE
The Six Core Questions you see to your right are a window to help us unders ...
END MOTION THROUGH THE SIX CORE QUESTIONS
In last week’s issue of The Visual thinker, we took a closer look at the ...
MOTION SICKNESS AND A DOSE OF MEDICINE
Chronic information deficits—offices and the production floor are flooded ...
MOTION: CORPORATE ENEMY #1
Deficits in information have a vast and disastrous impact on all performanc ...
THE ENEMY: CHRONIC INFORMATION DEFICITS
It’s no secret. Workplace information can change quickly and often—prod ...
TAKE THE MUZZLE OFF & LET THE WORKPLACE SPEAK: THE POWER OF IM...
In a visual workplace, information is converted into simple, commonly-under ...
PUZZLER SOLUTION: PROTOTYPE VISUALITY
I’ll bet you can hardly wait to learn about the solution to last week’s ...
VISUAL INVENTIVENESS VERSUS COOKIE-CUTTER DEVICES IN SHARED WORK EN...
Visuality is a language. Its purpose is to express our current understandin ...
PRINCIPLE-BASED VISUALITY FOR ENTERPRISE-WIDE ALIGNMENT/DOORWAY 10
Over this Visual Thinker series on the 10 Doorways, you’ve learned that t ...
THE THREE OUTCOMES THAT DEFINE SUCCESS
There are three outcomes that define success as you and your colleagues con ...
THE VISUAL MACRO TEAM: DOORWAY 9
Doorway 9 in our 10-Doorway visual workplace model is a means of building y ...
THE VISUAL-LEAN® OFFICE: DOORWAY 8
The excellence revolution was around for more than decade before companies ...
DOORWAY 7: THE VISUAL MACHINE® ~ LET THE MACHINE SPEAK
We have worked our way through the first six doorways and now arrive at Doo ...
DOORWAY 6: VISUAL GUARANTEES (POKA-YOKE SYSTEMS)
A visual guarantee is a mechanism that builds information so deeply into th ...
THE VISUAL WORKPLACE: DEFINED
The entire world of work—whether assembly plant, hospital, bank, airport, ...
DOORWAY 5: VISUAL CONTROLS & PULL SYSTEMS
Visual Controls in its many powerful forms is the focus of Doorway 5 in the ...
DOORWAY 4: VISUAL LEADERSHIP – THE BIG PICTURE
Doorway 4 of the Ten Doorways into a visual workplace opens to Visual Leade ...
DOORWAY 3: VISUAL DISPLAYS (THE SUPERVISOR’S NEED-TO-KNOW)
Supervisors, managers, and schedulers own Doorway Three[2]. Open it and you ...
DOORWAY 2: VISUAL STANDARDS (NOT AS POWERFUL AS YOU HOPE)
Everyone in the enterprise makes a contribution to visuality in the workpla ...
DOORWAY 1: OPERATOR-LED VISUALITY
The first Doorway into a Visual Workplace is visual order/visual inventiven ...
