Quick Start Action Mode
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Quick Start Action Mode is based on the instinctive need to innovate. Quick Start behavior is how we deal with the uncertainties. Quick Start drive is most oriented to activities that involve brainstorming, intuiting, inventing, and risk taking.



An Insistent Quick Start will: An Accommodating Quick Start is willing to: A Preventative Quick Start won't:
take risks go along with risks go off half-cocked
generate metaphors use metaphors cause distractions
promote experimentation participate in experiments be impulsive
defy the odds overcome the odds need deadlines
seek challenges provide challenges be ambiguous
originate options interject spontaneously go against the odds
discover alternatives try alternatives try to do too many things at once
ad lib follow another's hunch take the bait when challenged
create innovation assist innovation create chaos
act on instinct go along with changes force change and disruption


Kolbe Zones of Operation in each Action Mode

Initiate/Insist

How you will act. Initiate or Insist is the extent to which you actively insist upon, rely upon or begin problem solving by using a striving instinct.

Respond/Accommodate

How you are willing to act. Respond or Accommodate is the extent to which you accommodate, mediate or cooperate through the use of a striving instinct.

Prevent/Resist

How you won't act. Prevent or Resist is the extent to which you prevent problems by resisting action through a striving action.

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