The Bridge

Connecting the Powers of Linear and Circular Thinking

By: Kim Hudson

Narrated by: Kim Hudson, Paul Donnett, Jesse Hudson, Jamie Joe-Hudson

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.

©2024 Kim Hudson (P)2024 Kim Hudson

Fascinatingly didactic and novel recounting of the discovery of The Bridge and it's application personally and intra-personally

Should this be a universally popular book we will have a better world and optimally utopian governance. I.e., thinking how accessible it is, how widely her multi-dimensional mind observes, and simplifies the “conflict” at its core. The simplification is much like her first book, deceptive at first and instructive when she details what she just handed you. In this case the sensitive Native practice she adopted in imparting the first lessons of the book. So it feels like a friend's story till the impact of concepts begin to apply to more real and relatable life situations. While she draws deeply from the well of inter-cultural dialog, it's not limited in application to just that context or any inter-segment breakthroughs. Actually anything *anyone's* mind does, internally or intra-personally. Not to miss, excellent narration and narrators that stay clear at double speed — yes I unapologetically broke that tacit rule of her book. But I listened twice!