WHAT REVIEWERS HAD TO SAY

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Set the scene for success in your workplace with the art of visual management.
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"Visual Management , as defined in "Seeing Is Believing", combines the best of 5Ss, Visual Process Control and Open Book Management to create a unique way to align employees around the success of both the individual and the organization. "

Robert Brinly
President/Plant Manager
Rohm and Haas Texas Incorporated

"A compelling easy-to-read handbook on improving organizational performance by rallying employees around the mission and the metrics. Liff and Posey richly illustrate the method with vivid examples from successful practitioners in manufacturing, government, health care, and education. An original and totally replicable approach!"

Bob Stone, author of Confessions of a Civil Servant, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, why are so many organizations devoid of visual excitement and coherent visual information? And, what difference would it make if, from the moment you walked into an organization, you saw and felt its purpose, its customers, its accomplishments? Seeing Is Believing suggests an important new leverage point for creating an energized, high performing organization. It expands the meaning of "communication" to include the visual, and tells leaders how to use visual information to help people stay focused in their information overloaded world. "

Patricia McLagan, Chairman, McLagan International, Inc.

"This book offers a well grounded approach to changing an organization to improved performance & employee contribution. But what is fascinating is the creative addition of visual conditions & the application of fine arts concepts to even further enhance results."

Bob Wroblewski, Director, HR Planning & Administration, Weyerhaeuser

"Liff and Posey have created a masterful work on visual management. Any manager who is unaware of how this new paradigm can improve communication, focus, and productivity will be seriously disadvantaged. Read this book!"

Kimball Fisher, Author of Leading Self-Directed Work Teams and co-author of The Distance Manager and The Distributed Mind

"You may recognize a productive workplace when you see it, but if you have ever wondered about the principles behind creating such a workplace, this is the place to start. Seeing Is Believing shows us the principles of visual management, and how a planfully designed visual workplace can enhance productivity. Liff and Posey make it clear how visual management techniques incorporate the tenets of more familiar systems like 5S, balanced scorecards, and customer-focused workplaces, and how this approach fits into the broader context of leadership commitment and organizational change. Both practical and visionary, Seeing Is Believing has ideas and tools for senior management and change agents at all levels of the organization."

Marty Cohen
Director, Associate Services, The Conference Board; Former Senior Vice President, Client Services & Programs, Work in America Institute