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Issue 52/Volume 2                www.VisualWorkplace.com                  December 30, 2015
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Thought for the Week
The biggest obstacle to improving productivity is management's inability to recognize that it must lead the company out of its productivity problems--not manage it out.
There is a great deal of difference. Leading means: setting the vision; inspiring others by examples; and following up to see that the vision is accomplished.
Charles Turner
Texas Power & Light
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Sustain-5: Sustaining Means Driving (ENCORE)
 
Our sustainment series wraps up today--at least for the time being. And what three things do we now know for sure? 1) A company that does not learn how to sustain its improvements will lose them. 2) A company that thinks audits creates sustainment has confused compliance with engagement-and will fail. 3) Sustainment requires a balance between people, imagination, and structure/tools. In today's Visual Workplace show,Gwendolyn Galsworth un-nests the fourth understanding: 4) Sustaining means driving--and to drive you need a destination (a clear focus) and plenty of gas. Join us and hear specific ways to cultivate continuous engagement as part of your sustainment process. Learn how to re-fresh and re-fuel people's thinking each month so that new ideas and inventions are continually generated and your KPIs improve. Learn more about why we say: Visuality doesn't just drive work culture-it creates it.
 
 
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