By Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
The Biggest Obstacle: Leading Versus Managing
The year: 1989. Florida Power & Light had just won the Deming Prize, Ja ...
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 ...
Will I be the Hero of my Own Life?
What would it be like if every CEO, manager, and supervisor commits to the ...
WHEN KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE
I have been advised not to touch the current political campaign with pen or ...
IDEAS: GROWTH IN BOTH DIRECTIONS
We are fast approaching the time when companies realize and are ready to ac ...
NOTHING CHANGES IF NOTHING CHANGES
One of my favorite sayings is Hindu: Nothing changes if nothing changes. Th ...
THE ELEPHANT ON THE FACTORY FLOOR
Have you heard this? Just because this department is a bit dingy—and it� ...
VISUALITY & THE TWO PRIMES
The visual world and I…. The visual world and you. Such a perfect relatio ...
VISUALITY & PINK POWDER
Here’s an odd conceptual parallel: We know that the invisible enemy at wo ...
DRILLING DEEPER INTO YOUR VALUE FIELD
Your understanding of the term value field (which I defined and discussed i ...
MOTION AND YOUR VALUE FIELD
Across the past several issues, we have been examining motion/moving withou ...
MULTIPLES AND METHODOLOGY
Did you do it? Did you take last week’s Pop Quiz and track the number of ...
THE SINGLE BIGGEST PROBLEM IN COMMUNICATION
The one complaint—the one problem—that nearly every company puts at (or ...
MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS: + BEAUTY
What is it that beauty does? Why does it draw us? Why do we seek it? My ans ...
LILIES & CHIQUITA THE BANANA: BEAUTY IS AS BEAUTY DOES
I see about 15-30 new plants every year, year in and year out. Hundreds in ...
SUSTAINMENT: PREPARE FOR IT!
To be complete, a company’s journey to a fully-functioning visual workpla ...
THE START OF THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION
More often than not, an effective implementation of operator-led visuality ...
STANDARDS THAT SUPPORT WORKPLACE VISUALITY
For the past several issues, we have taken a walk through the forest called ...
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 ...
VISUALITY ALIGNS THE CULTURE
Thinking about company conversions merely in terms of increased production ...
THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY
In 1952, something happened to the macaque monkeys on the remote island of ...
THE NEED TO SHARE: THE PERFECT PROMISE OF UNITY
In last week’s issue of The Visual Thinker, I discussed the first of the ...
I-DRIVEN VISUALITY: HARNESSING THE HERO WITHIN
At the core, each of us has a deep and abiding need to achieve, to contribu ...
