Eric sells pens to astronauts, leads a sales team, and is currently competing on a national game show. But every big idea he starts dies at the same point (what he calls hour 4) and he has spent years reading that as a lack of motivation. So why does someone this driven keep abandoning his best work halfway?
In this Private Session, David Kolbe (CEO of Kolbe Corp) reads Eric's Kolbe A™ Index result out loud for the first time. He starts with his Natural Advantage™, Idea-Generating Powerhouse, then breaks down the full result one Action Mode® at a time. As he interprets it, the hour 4 problem stops looking like a discipline issue and starts looking like a job description: Eric is built for the start, and his real work is finding the people who finish.
Eric's Natural Advantage: Idea-Generating Powerhouse.
Eric's full Kolbe A Index result:
4 in Fact Finder
4 in Follow Thru
7 in Quick Start
4 in Implementor
This session breaks down what each number means, why the same instinct that wins duels on a game show also runs his sales team, and how to work with your instincts instead of against them.
Curious about yours? Discover your Natural Advantage, then unlock your full Kolbe A Index result: https://linktr.ee/naturaladvantage
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Great at Starting, Gone by Hour 4
01:05 Natural Advantage: Idea-Generating Powerhouse
09:47 Follow Thru: The 4 (Goes With the Flow, Skips the Script)
10:50 Fact Finder: The 4 (Key Facts, Then Move)
11:15 Implementor: The 4 (Imagines First, Builds Second)
11:40 Quick Start: The 7 (Best When the Plan Breaks)
19:49 The Hour 4 Problem and the Ego Trap
30:46 A Pivoter Married to a Planner
38:19 Working With the Way You're Wired
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- What a Natural Advantage is (and how it's just one piece of your full result)
- How your full Kolbe A Index result reveals strengths across all four Action Modes (Fact Finder, Follow Thru, Quick Start, Implementor)
- Why quitting at hour 4 can be a strength, not a lack of discipline
- How to hand your ideas off (and why the finishers deserve just as much credit)
ABOUT KOLBE
Kolbe measures how you naturally take action, your conative instincts. It's not personality. It's not IQ. Every Private Session follows the same path: the guest's Natural Advantage first, then their full Kolbe A Index result, one Action Mode at a time. You see yourself in someone else's session before you ever take the assessment.
Discover your Natural Advantage and unlock your full Kolbe A Index result: https://linktr.ee/naturaladvantage
Learn more about Kolbe: https://www.kolbe.com
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