Seeing Is Believing: How the New Art of Visual Management Can Boost Performance Throughout Your Organization

by Stewart Liff

The visual elements in a workplace have a profound effect on its employees. Most organizations, however, do not recognize the power of design, art, sculpture, and graphics to create the vibrancy and energy that can drive productivity and innovation. Seeing Is Believing explains how to use these elements to improve communications, connect individual tasks to organizational goals, and greatly enhance employee commitment and job satisfaction. It shows how the system of Visual replaces "information overload" with information sharing and effective workflow* translates critical requirements into visual stimuli that cannot be ignored* resonates particularly well with "the MTV generation"* enhances the way customers, other stakeholders, and the public relate to the organization Seeing Is Believing shows how organizations of all types are adopting VM and lays out a roadmap for successful implementation.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published October 22, 2004

About the author

Stewart Liff was born in Flushing, New York in 1951 and moved to Santa Clarita, California in 1994. A classically trained artist, he worked for the Federal government for 32 years, where he led several transformation efforts. One of them led to Vice President Al Gore presenting his office with his first Hammer Award for reinventing government. The second effort resulted in his office winning OPM's prestigious PILLAR (Performance Incentives Leadership Linked to Achieving Results) Award. He has written six books, four on managing in government, one on visual management and his most recent book, A Team of Leaders, with Paul Gustavson, which was recently named one of the 30 best books of 2014 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries.