A weekly newsletter about letting the workplace speak
Issue 10/Volume 2                www.VisualWorkplace.com                 March 11, 2015
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Did You Know...
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Thought for the Week
The cookie-cutter approach is death to workplace visuality. Visual devices and systems need the juice of local imaginations devising solutions to problems that are often invisible to those outside the department. That juice is crucial to sustainability and to solutions that really work.
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The X-Type Matrix: Using It to Lead

Listen to Gwendolyn this  Thursday at 10am
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This Week's Episode
The X-Type Matrix: Using It to Lead

Now that you constructed your X-Type Matrix, how are you going to use it to carve out an improvement pathway-to help you lead? Because that is the proposition: The principles, tools, and practices of visual leadership shift us away from mere managing and help us strengthen and shape our skill and effectiveness as leaders. In this week's show, Gwendolyn Galsworth reminds us of the power of the visual leadership construct (tool) called the X-Type Matrix--and why it is entirely worth developing and using.   

Feature Article
Doorway 10
Principle-Based Visuality
for Enterprise-Wide Alignment
A fellow truck technician and a manager are part of the visual exam team for this truck 

by Gwendolyn Galsworth    

Doorway 10 is opened at advanced stages of a visual conversion, after the principles of visuality have been internalized by your visually-thinking employees--managers, operators, supervisors, executives. After they have developed skill at visual thinking, knowledge and know-how. Then comes the time for them to use these principles to connect and align the enterprise and form a more comprehensive visual conversion base. This is the purpose of Doorway 10. The organization has matured in its understanding and application of visuality. Now it is ready to use it more assertively to support the company's business case...

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Examiner Tony Cogswell also served as the Visual Workplace Coordinator to this fleet of 300 trucks. 
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