The Bridge: Connecting the Powers of Linear and Circular Thinking

The Bridge: Connecting the Powers of Circular and Linear Thinking highlights the advantages we gain when we support both linear and circular thinking styles within our organizations and our personal lives. Kim Hudson has a talent for seeing patterns. The Bridge framework emerged from recent advances in neuroscience, the example of successful leaders, and her own experiences as a geologist, land claims negotiator, consultant to First Nations, and story analyst.

With curiosity and compassion, Hudson aligns stories with scientific research to introduce a framework for linear and circular thinking. Linear thinking optimizes competition, development of excellence, strong safety protocols, productivity, justice, prioritization, protection, predictability, and much more.

Circular thinking optimizes collaboration, creativity, responsiveness to unpredictable situations, authenticity, decentralized decision making, learning, insight into what is meaningful, inclusion, change management, and much more. Conscious separation of linear from circular thinking allows us to apply the optimal operating principles and double our power. The Bridge provides a groundbreaking framework for deciding when to use each type of power and how to navigate from one to the other.

Kim is the Founder of the 2 Ways of Knowing Project (2WK), which she developed as a Fellow at Simon Fraser University Centre for Dialogue. Her work as an author, speaker, workshop facilitator, and consultant over the past 30 years has been with the mineral industry, film industry, and Federal, Territorial and several First Nation governments. Her experience as an exploration geologist, prospector, Yukon Water Board Member, Chair of the Yukon Land Use Planning Council, Federal Yukon Comprehensive Land Claims negotiator, and mother have fuelled her passion for pattern recognition. Kim calls the Yukon home and this is her second book. You can contact Kim through kimhudsonauthor.com