How to Be a Buoy in a Sea of Possibilities

Dec 18, 2012

How to Be a Buoy in a Sea of Possibilities

Dec 18, 2012h in Cognition & Communications, Collaboration Strategies, Leading Change, Organization Development by David Sibbet 0 Comments

Fast Company excerpted my new book Visual Leaders in their recent on-line edition. The article features my observations about how to deal with social media by thinking about messages as being buoys in a foggy sea of possibilities. I shared a set of principles that are elaborated on in the article. Click here to read.

Dec 17, 2012

Visual Leaders is Back From the Printers!

Dec 17, 2012h in Visual Leadership books, Visualizing by David Sibbet 3 Comments

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 be out very soon. In the meantime, enjoy this short intro video.

Aug 08, 2012

Visual Leaders is Happening

Aug 08, 2012h in Cognition & Communications, Innovation, Leading Change, Organization Development, Systems Theory, Visual Leadership books, Visualizing by David Sibbet 5 Comments

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’m calling the visualization revolution.

VisualLeadersCover8-3D - Visual Leaders is Happening

This cover image illustrates the big picture focus of the book. It’s written to help leaders and managers increase their visual IQ, learn to work with visual practitioners, and guide their organizations in become more literate visually, in both face-to-face and virtual environments. I am making sure there are lots of practice exercises and suggestions for new leaders.

As with Visual Meetings and Visual Teams, I have been able to not only write the book and do the drawings, but design it myself in InDesign. I’ve actually moved to doing the writing in InDesign, so that from the very first drafts I can see what I’m getting on each page. It’s a thrilling process to be able finally to create in both text and graphics. If you want to read the TOC, click on the images and they will expand.

Oct 03, 2011

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

Oct 03, 2011h in Collaboration Strategies, Graphic Facilitation, Innovation, Organization Development, Process Theory, Visual Leadership books, Visualizing by David Sibbet 0 Comments

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 know what was new in this book that they could talk about.

10Showingthebook - Visual Teams Has Arrived—What's New About It? Here is my answer.

1. New Success Stories: It tells the stories of many high performance teams that used visualization extensively to achieve results. These stories from HP, Otis Spunkmeyer, RE-AMP, Agilent Technologies, the DLR Group, and Gary Hamel’s MLab demonstrate how visual meeting methods can be used over the whole arc of team’s life.