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Reflections on Leadership: Wisdom from the Past
Quotable Quotes
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The Inner Work of the Leader: A Basis for Strength, Courage and Confidence
Suggested Readings
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Ki ThoughtBridge specializes in an integrated approach to the resolution of conflict, the development of leadership, the management of change, and the transformation of organizational and community systems. We enable our clients to achieve their purpose in ways that build trust, integrity, effectiveness, and profitability.
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By Katherine Tyler Scott
History balances the frustration of "how far we have to go" with the satisfaction of "how far we have come." This quote by Lewis F. Powell, Jr. came to me as I looked back at the three years of Ki ThoughtBridge's existence and the future of our work. When we announced the creation of Ki ThoughtBridge in January 2006, we laughingly described this enterprise as "a start-up company with an eighteen year history." We immediately realized the paradoxical nature of what we were launching.
Irma's vocation evolved out of the Harvard Negotiation Project when she was a student at Harvard Law School. After working for a law firm in Washington, D.C., she returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to work with Roger Fisher, Professor at Harvard, and a group of colleagues committed to providing the world with a different view of and process for resolving conflict. The company's name was Conflict Management, Inc. (CMI), and when it evolved into five separate companies, ThoughtBridge was one of them.
Irma was a partner and founder and, under her leadership, ThoughtBridge continued to work with educational institutions, government organizations, and corporations training clients in proven processes and state-of-the-art tools and resources in conflict management, negotiation, and mediation. The high level of skill and impressive results strengthened the reputation of ThoughtBridge and created a trust that remains with the company today.
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Quotable Quotes
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Misfortunes often sharpen the genius."
- Ovid
"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls."
-Winston Churchill
Article: The Inner Work of the Leader: A Basis for Strength, Courage and Confidence
By Joanna M. Murray
"Crucible - a transformative event - severe test or trial, which can be intense and traumatic - and always unplanned." - Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas "Crucibles force leaders into deep self-reflection, where they examine their values, question their assumptions, and hone their judgment."1 Currently, we are living through a crucible experience - truly a time of unprecedented change and great upheaval; a time that is leaving leaders with countless questions and few answers. Bennis suggests that in times of such upheaval and change the wisest course of action is to become internally wise. Over the past 18 years the Ki ThoughtBridge team has developed and refined a set of reflective practices and tools to help leaders become more internally wise and externally productive. The process we offer results in a deep level of self-knowledge and awareness. The Ki ThoughtBridge Inner Work of the Leader: Discovering the Leader Within© materials address one of the four key principles of our Integrated Model of Leadership©. Read the complete article to find out more lessons from the process of inner work. Suggested Readings: The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies and Practices for the New Era, Frances Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith, Leader to Leader Institute, Jossey - Bass, 2006 Artful Leadership, Awakening the Commons of the Imagination by Michael Jones, Trafford Publishing, 2006 A Leader's Guide to Reflective Practice by Judy Brown, Trafford Publishing, 2008