By Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth


The Biggest Obstacle: Leading Versus Managing

The year: 1989. Florida Power & Light had just won the Deming Prize, Ja ...

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Churchill’s 39 Desks: Structure That Frees

For me, the operational essence of the leader dilemma is this: How do I say ...

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The Barracuda Leader: Visuality and Lunch

The barracuda is an ambush fish, capable of speeds of 25 mph and feared by ...

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Will I be the Hero of my Own Life?

What would it be like if every CEO, manager, and supervisor commits to the ...

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WHEN KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE

I have been advised not to touch the current political campaign with pen or ...

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IDEAS: GROWTH IN BOTH DIRECTIONS

We are fast approaching the time when companies realize and are ready to ac ...

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NOTHING CHANGES IF NOTHING CHANGES

One of my favorite sayings is Hindu: Nothing changes if nothing changes. Th ...

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THE ELEPHANT ON THE FACTORY FLOOR

Have you heard this? Just because this department is a bit dingy—and it� ...

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VISUALITY & THE TWO PRIMES

The visual world and I…. The visual world and you. Such a perfect relatio ...

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VISUALITY & PINK POWDER

Here’s an odd conceptual parallel: We know that the invisible enemy at wo ...

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DRILLING DEEPER INTO YOUR VALUE FIELD

Your understanding of the term value field (which I defined and discussed i ...

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MOTION AND YOUR VALUE FIELD

Across the past several issues, we have been examining motion/moving withou ...

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MULTIPLES AND METHODOLOGY

Did you do it? Did you take last week’s Pop Quiz and track the number of ...

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THE SINGLE BIGGEST PROBLEM IN COMMUNICATION

The one complaint—the one problem—that nearly every company puts at (or ...

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MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS: + BEAUTY

What is it that beauty does? Why does it draw us? Why do we seek it? My ans ...

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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 ...

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SUSTAINMENT: PREPARE FOR IT!

To be complete, a company’s journey to a fully-functioning visual workpla ...

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THE START OF THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION

More often than not, an effective implementation of operator-led visuality ...

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STANDARDS THAT SUPPORT WORKPLACE VISUALITY

For the past several issues, we have taken a walk through the forest called ...

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PUZZLER SOLUTION: PROTOTYPE VISUALITY

I’ll bet you can hardly wait to learn about the solution to last week’s ...

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VISUAL INVENTIVENESS VERSUS COOKIE-CUTTER DEVICES IN SHARED WORK EN...

Visuality is a language. Its purpose is to express our current understandin ...

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PRINCIPLE-BASED VISUALITY FOR ENTERPRISE-WIDE ALIGNMENT/DOORWAY 10

Over this Visual Thinker series on the 10 Doorways, you’ve learned that t ...

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VISUALITY ALIGNS THE CULTURE

Thinking about company conversions merely in terms of increased production ...

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THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY

In 1952, something happened to the macaque monkeys on the remote island of ...

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THE NEED TO SHARE: THE PERFECT PROMISE OF UNITY

In last week’s issue of The Visual Thinker, I discussed the first of the ...

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I-DRIVEN VISUALITY: HARNESSING THE HERO WITHIN

At the core, each of us has a deep and abiding need to achieve, to contribu ...

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