Ki ThoughtBridge's expertise in connecting research and practice provides our clients with the best training and consultation possible in the areas of leadership development, change management, conflict resolution, and negotiation. We are continuing this tradition with the launch of Ki ThoughtBridge's e-newsletter - eBridge!

This newsletter will bring the best information, people, and ideas together in creative, stimulating ways that enlighten and expand understanding. We want the newsletter to be a Leadership Exchange - a place of provocative thought, inquiry, discussion, and dialogue. We'll offer recommendations for books and feature cutting-edge articles from scholars and practitioners. Make this your space and send in questions, thoughts, and ideas.

Article: The 3 Degrees of Change
By Katherine Tyler Scott

The biggest leadership challenge organizations face today is learning how to successfully initiate and competently manage change. We have all heard or seen the phrase "Change happens" and are reminded of its omnipresence and complexity from which no institution is immune.

One of the first steps in initiating and managing change is to acknowledge the reality that change is a leadership issue...

Read the complete article to learn about the three degrees of change and how you can successfully manage them.

Announcing LENS: Leadership Education Network

Ki ThoughtBridge is a founder of the Leadership Education Network (LENS), a group of leadership education professionals in the business and academic sectors. This group of experts meets regularly to explore in depth, the questions and issues of working in, and changing, the leadership and culture of organizations and communities. Membership is by invitation. For more information contact Katherine Tyler Scott at (317) 822-8205.

Article: The Match Game
By Katherine Tyler Scott

15 Questions For Creating Successful Client Relationships

Every year, organizations hire thousands of consultants to assist them in planning, problem-solving, and decision making. The ultimate goal in most instances is to provide some form of help to an organization so that it can succeed in achieving its mission and vision.

But, not all consultants and organizations are created equal. The most important factor when an organization looks for outside assistance is the degree of alignment between the organization and the consultant. This is the ultimate match game, and it is not driven solely by the organization.

Read the complete article for 15 questions consultants need to ask to determine whether or not you are the right match for an organization.

Suggested Readings

• Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership
  Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal
  
  
• A Leader to Leader Guide on Mission and Leadership: Insights from the Drucker Foundation's Award-Winning Journal
  Frances Hesselbein and Rob Johnston
   
• A Leader's Legacy
  James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
  
  
• Leadership is Global: Co-Creating a More Humane and Sustainable World
  Walter Link, Thais Corral, and Mark Gerzon

Quotable Quotes

"Most U.S. Corporations today are over-managed and underled...Management is coping with complexity; leadership is coping with change."
- John Kotter, What Leaders Really Do

"To us, the major difference between managers and leaders is how they view organizations. Managers tend to think rationally or humanistically - sometimes resorting to politics...Leaders, on the other hand, are able to see all dimensions of social collectives - including oft-neglected political and symbolic levels of human behavior. They are leading managers, managerial leaders, something more in any event than custodians of the status quo. They are able to see things differently - to have visions of new strategies or patterns in everyday thought and deed. Their flexibility of thinking fosters flexibility in their behavior. They are able to act inconsistently when consistency fails to work, tenderly when emotions are raw, non-rationally when situations make no sense, politically when reason fails to parochial self-interest, playfully when goals and purposes seem counterproductive. These are the kind of people that will lead (or manage) the organizations of tomorrow." 
- Lee G. Bolman and Terry E. Deal

"Staying with the 'same' problems, and employing the 'same' solutions makes us feel comfortable and in control - the value of management rituals. But unless the problems are defined accurately and the strategies mesh with organizational realities, situations will not improve. Usually they will get worse."
- Lee G. Bolman and Terry E. Deal

"The first task of a leader is to define reality."
- Max DePree

"Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, assertive or sensitive. It is about having a particular set of attributes...And chief among these attributes is character."
- Warren Bennis

"There's solid evidence that the best leaders are highly attuned to what's going on inside themselves as they are leading and to what's going on with others. They're very self-aware and they're very socially aware."
- James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, A Leader's Legacy

Upcoming Events & Trainings

Date	Event	Location
January 26	Montgomery County Public Schools and Montgomery County Education Association	Rockville, MD
January 27-28	Arthritis Foundation	Atlanta, GA
February 7	Boston Public Schools	Boston, MA
February 16-18	International Leadership Association	Vancouver, Canada
February 20	Community Foundation of South Wood County	Wisconsin Rapids, WI
February 22-24	Leadership Montana	Great Falls, MT
February 26-27	Cordis, Johnson & Johnson	Warren, NJ
March 15-16	Leadership Styles and Emotional Intelligence	Indianapolis, IN
March 29-30	Leadership Montana	Butte, MT

Here's What You Will Find in the Next Issue of eBridge

Trust is said to be the essential ingredient in organizational life. In spite of the importance accorded to it we lack consensus about what it is or how to develop it. Join us in the March issue for a discussion of trust, its origins, and its impact on individuals in organizations and communities. This issue will have a special article from Josh Plaskoff, Director of Learning at EMMIS Communications on Community Building in Corporations.