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Yogi Berra, New York Yankee Hall of Fame Baseball Player

The quote is in honor of the recently finished baseball World Series. For our friends outside the USA, we do know that the sport is not widely played in all parts of the world, but please indulge us.

Workplace Testing for General Anxiety Disorder

With the airwaves thick these days with pharmaceutical ads for the latest designer drugs, antidepressants may be a dangerous panacea for many people whose real problems lie outside their heads. Changing brain chemistry is no substitute for changing bosses, jobs or priorities.

As a Kolbe-trained advisor, your message to your charges is that they first should be taking action, not drugs. Step number one would be to complete a Kolbe A™ Index and then compare it to a Kolbe B™ Index on the job. Knowledge of talents and expectations for how they need to be used is a powerful and not oft-used alternative to antidepressants.

Question for Kathy Kolbe

A. These are sensory issues. Some of us have a better sense for sound, or sight, while others have a strong sense of touch or smell. That does not seem to correlate to MOs, according to my observations. The following situations may seem to be atypical behavior for the MO, but are statements of fact:

--A resistant FF may benefit from making notes in order to recall information. The notes are likely to be in bullet points, key words or abbreviations. --An off-key vocal rendition can hurt the ear of a resistant Follow Thru, as much as it does his/her conative opposite. --A visually stimulating movie with a multitude of changing effects might be very pleasing for a resistant QS. --A strong sense of touch can make a resistant Implementor appreciate the feel of the craftsmanship of another.

The bottom line is that I have not been able to study this issue in an objective way. It would be exciting to find a research method that could quantify sensory differences so we could do a comparative analysis. If anyone has ideas around this, please let me know.

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More on Trusting your Instincts

Chief among these stories is the publication of the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book. It seems that in 1992 Jack Canfield, the author, had already had his collection of motivational stories rejected by 140 publishers. He ran into a casual acquaintance, a publisher of material focused on drug and alcohol recovery, who, in a gut reaction after hearing the elevator pitch, said "I'll publish it." Refusing at first to even read the stories, so sure was he of Canfield and the original premise, the publisher ended up redirecting his business toward spiritual uplift and in the process created a whole new literary genre. Now, 51 titles later, Canfield is an icon and HCI is the largest US publishing company outside of New York City with sales exceeding $100 million.

Using instinct and intuition interchangeably, the author also tells the story of how the legendary founder of Sony, Akio Morita, launched the Walkman. Known for his disdain of classic research, Morita is described as taking an intuitive leap by ordering the design of the Walkman when research would have indicated that no one would be interested in buying a machine that would play only and not record. As they say, "and the rest is history."

Click on the link below to check out several good quotes from the article. Here's one for the road: "When you're entering an area where the unknowns are high, and experience is important, if you don't rely on intuition you're cutting yourself short," says Howard Gardner, professor of cognition and education at Harvard University.

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