Workplace Visuality:
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The eye can process 36,000 bits of information every hour.
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Motion is the plague you don't even see. Tied so intimately and inextricably to unanswered questions (information deficits), motion almost always looks like business as usual.
In a visual workplace, motion is not only corporate enemy #1. It is the main leverage point for making the problem of information deficits detectable and eliminating those deficits and the motion they cause. This is the work of the visual thinker.
from
Work that Makes Sense
by Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth
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Visual Radio:
The Strange Attractor vs. Flavor-of-the-Month Improvement
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Listen to Gwendolyn this
Thursday at 10am
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This Week's Episode
The Strange Attractor vs.
Flavor-of-the-Month Improvement
Do your efforts to lead improvement ever seem random and erratic--producing results that are unpredictable or inconsistent? Do you, as a result, decide to abandon the endeavor and start over on some other improvement target--the notorious flavor-of-the-month syndrome? Do the so-called glories of leading improvement sound like so much hype to you--a distraction from the real business at hand: making a profit? If so, you may have unworkable notion of how improvement progress is made and long-lasting results achieved. This week, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, examines what most of us take for granted: improvement as a positive and staying-the-course as a leadership imperative. At its heart, the discussion is about the mysterious, nearly miraculous, role that stillness plays in leading improvement. Join us as Gwendolyn re-launches her series on visual leadership/the executive function and links dynamic systems with the role of the strange attractor.
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Visual Representation of a Strange Attractor
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"Atractor Poisson Saturne" by Nicolas Desprez, www.chaoscope.org/gallery.htm. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
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A close focus on the Mandelbrot set, a fractal that demonstrates the power of stillness and resolve to never give up.
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Editor's Note: This is the most popular article we've ever run. Because it's such a great story to share, it is our Thanksgiving week gift to you. Check here next week for What Does Growth Mean for You?, part 3 of Dr. Galsworth's current series on Lean.
The Hundredth Monkey
by Gwendolyn Galsworth, PhD
In 1952, something happened to the macaque monkeys on the remote island of Koshima that has very much to do with your implementation of visuality and your march toward achieving a visual workplace.
Like most wild creatures, the macaques spend much of their time gathering food. Collecting food and feeding behaviors are passed on, by example, from mother to young.
A group of scientists was researching macaque feeding behaviors. As part of their experiment, they set stacks of raw sweet potatoes in selected spots on the beaches of Koshima. Quite naturally, the potatoes were quickly covered with sand, presenting the monkeys with a dilemma: Every time they took a bite of these delicious new treats, they also got a bite of sand and grit.
One day an eighteen-month-old female monkey carried a sand-covered sweet potato to a stream and solved the problem of the grit by washing it off before putting it into her mouth. She then taught this new procedure to her mother and to her playmates. The behavior began to spread.
But things were just heating up. Something really extraordinary was about to happen, something that no one had ever before observed.
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Thanks to Daniel J. Fleming
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Great signs, clever visual devices, artistic or humorous graffiti. If you find one to share, send the image to
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 In this Thanksgiving holiday week, we would like to thank you for reading our news and articles, sending us your visual discoveries, and sharing what you learn with others in your life and work. Thank you for helping fill the world with visual solutions to life's challenges. Happy Thanksgiving to you, from all of us at Visual Thinking Inc.
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