Articles

The Productivity vs. Creativity Battle - Boutique Design magazine looks at how the Kolbe Wisdom can help creative people achieve peak productivity without suffering burnout.

Keeping Employees in Sync When Opening a Small Branch - How Tulsa, OK insurance firm CFR uses Kolbe analysis to assemble and manage a four-person team to successfully open a branch office. A case study from The Rough Notes.

The Performance Conundrum: Getting the Right People On the Bus through Performance Forecasting - Kolbe Certified™ consultant Mari Martin explains how to use Kolbe to "get the right people on the bus" in this article for Public Management, the monthly magazine for the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).

Know Your Score - Advisor Today examines how financial advisors are using Kolbe to improve practice management.

Succession Planning - A white paper by Kathy Kolbe on how to implement strengths-based approaches to succession planning.

Conation: The Missing Link - This article by Dr. Karen Gerdes of Arizona State University gives an excellent background on the conative part of the mind and includes a call to action for the social work community. This is a pre-publication copy of an article that has been accepted by Social Work journal.

This test helps you find the freedom to be you - An article featured in the Arizona Business Gazette.

Recipe for Success - Read how Kolbe helped CFR discover their recipe for success in a recent article featured in Independent Agent.

Right Person for the Job - Treemendous Landscape Company describes in Landscape Management how Kolbe has maximized their team efficiency and performance.

Harvesting Financial Smarts - Read how the owner of Victoria Printz Team, REALTORS® uses Kolbe for recruiting and performance improvement.

Part I: Testing, Testing - In this two-part feature in Investment Advisor magazine, May 2005, the Kolbe A™ Index is identified as one of the key assessments financial services firms should consider when recruiting and placing employees. Also read Part II: Going to the Source.

It's a Small-Business World After All - Will Rapp is one of three global executives featured in MyBusiness magazine, February 2005.

How to be Wildly Successful - Featured in The Oprah Magazine, Dr. Martha Beck writes about the Kolbe Wisdom.

Through the years, Kolbe has been mentioned in a variety of different articles regarding education, business, careers, and self awareness. Below is a small sample of those articles.

• Relationships Built on Instinct
• Kolbe Returns to Medill
• Parenting by Instinct
• Derek's Story
• Impulsive? Distracted? Quick Start? Experts say you suffer from ADD
• How to Get More Done
• Do You Have the Gumption to Succeed?
• Basic Instinct
• 16PF Newsletter
• Hiring is still long process
• Little Red Hen Revisited
• Vehicle Leasing Today
• Xerox
• Alaska Airlines
• Eastman Chemicals
• National Law Journal
• Kolbe Forecast™ & Active Learning
• A New Model for Systematic Competency Identification