Visual Leadership books

Cognition & Communications David Sibbet

The Power of Frames

Gisela Wendling, my co-author, and I recently had an interesting time experiencing the power of “frames” at the Fielding Graduate School Winter Session in Santa Barbara. (She is an alumni of their Ph.D. program). My attention to this subject was fueled by three experiences; 1) Our holding a small
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Leading Change David Sibbet

Visual Consulting: Co-Creating the Future

For years I’ve had an open geodesic sphere hanging in my studio with two quotes hanging in the middle. One is by Buckminster Fuller, inventor of geodesics. To paraphrase, he says you can’t reform humans where they are (I think he said “man,” dating him). The best you
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Cognition & Communications David Sibbet

Preparing to Write—Visual Consulting

I am preparing to write a new book called Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change, potentially as a fourth in the Wiley visual leadership series. This one will be co-authored by The Grove’s VP of Global Learning, Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., an expert on personal and organizational transformation. It
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Cognition & Communications David Sibbet

Visual Leaders Launches: New Year Begins

At The Grove we are officially launching Visual Leaders today. This means that Amazon is shipping; it's in the stores at Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million. And one person wrote from Canada that he saw it in Toronto in its "World's Biggest Bookstore." Richard
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Visual Leadership books David Sibbet

Visual Leaders is Back From the Printers!

I just got a note from Lydia Dimitriadis at Wiley saying, "Just wanted to let you know that some advance copies of the new book came in today! It really looks fantastic—great job on the design. Thanks, and congrats on another beautiful book!" So, Visual Leaders will
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Cognition & Communications David Sibbet

Visual Leaders is Happening

A third book in my Wiley & Sons trilogy on visualization is nearing completion of its first draft. Wiley agreed to print the book in full color, and I am having a terrific time loading it with examples of how leaders of all kinds can take advantage of what I&
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Collaboration Strategies David Sibbet

Visual Teams Has Arrived—What's New About It?

My second Wiley book, Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, & High Performance, arrived in a box at the precise moment we finished a review of our Team Performance System at The Grove’s Quarterly meeting! Needless to say I and our team was pretty exited. Everyone wanted to
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Collaboration Strategies David Sibbet

Visual Meetings Arrives at The Grove

Imagine holding the book you see here in your hands, and knowing that you wrote, illustrated and designed all 262 pages! I got that chance last Friday when Visual Meetings arrived from Wiley & Sons. The process began in December of last year when Richard Narramore called and wondered if
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Graphic Facilitation David Sibbet

Visual Meetings: A Revolution in Group Productivity

This post links you to a video about my presentation on Visual Meetings at a recent TEDxSOMA event at the ParisSOMA loft, South of Market Street in San Francisco. ParisSOMA is a shared workspace for young entrepreneurs, very much in the spirit of the TED events. Its motto is "
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