Powered by Instinct: 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts

What if you had a secret power that could reduce burnout, increase productivity, and improve communication? Would you be intrigued? Furthermore, what if this power could be used in any situation to benefit your life, and you didn’t even have to train yourself to use it? Everyone has such a resource right at their fingertips. It’s called ‘instincts.’ Psychologists have ignored this elusive third part of the mind for over a century, but the influence of instincts-and how to use them to your benefit -is about to be revealed. Powered by Instinct: 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts is a landmark book by the country’s foremost authority on human instincts, Kathy Kolbe. It will introduce readers to her newest discoveries in the field of human behavior that will transform the way the world thinks about what makes people act they way they do. The book will lay out the accumulating body of evidence that shows that our culture’s focus on the intellect has caused us to stray from innate abilities and the benefits of going with our grain instead of stressing ourselves by trying to change who we are. This hands-on, how-to guide explains an unparalleled approach to work, relationships, learning and enjoying life that provides maximum benefits with no effort on your part to change a single thing about yourself.

Kathy Kolbe, innovative theorist and author (of such best-selling books as The Conative Connection and Pure Instinct), is the developer of the world’s first system for measuring individual instinctive talents and Chief Executive Officer of Kolbe Corp. A former journalist inducted last year into Northwestern University’s Hall of Achievement, Kathy spent more than 20 years researching and testing her theories of human behavior. Initially the creator of Think-ercises®, a product that teaches critical and creative thinking skills, she began to explore an under-researched part of the human mind: the conative, an area acknowledged by thinkers from Plato to Piaget. Her scientifically-proven methods have brought international praise. Organizations around the world have benefited from her insights and expertise. She was profiled in Time magazine’s Man of the Year issue as one of seven Americans "who exemplify the spirit that inspires…the choice for Man of the Year." Kolbe was honored by the White House as "one of America’s Can-Do people." Kolbe is a pioneer in her field: • Her identification of a distinct cluster of human behaviors has led to breakthroughs in understanding and using innate abilities.

• Kolbe developed the Kolbe A™ Index. This tool is being used by thousands of people worldwide to improve communication, reduce stress and increase job satisfaction.

• Kolbe’s work on striving instincts has been featured in newspapers around the world, including: The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, the LA Times and USA Today. Her work with sports teams was featured on ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and she was the subject of a story on CNN’s Managing with Lou Dobbs. She is named in "The World Who’s Who of Women."

Kolbe is a best selling author:

• The Conative Connection explains how she put together the puzzle of striving instincts and developed her methodology for building on individuals’ innate strengths.

• Pure Instinct, details her experience with high performers in business and her techniques for helping achieve their potential.

• Powered by Instinct: 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts –available in October, 2003 – offers techniques for tapping into instinctive power to overcome fatigue, fear and frustration. The results she role models are those she offers to readers: high levels of mental energy that unlock obstacles to achieving personal goals. Kolbe launched her company in 1975. As CEO, her outstanding achievements as a business leader have been widely acclaimed, including: Being honored as Arizona’s Small Business Person of the Year; being chosen by the White House as an Honorary Grand Marshall at the 1985 Presidential Inaugural Parade; being selected as an Entrepreneurial Fellow by the University of Arizona; and receiving the Bullock’s Portfolio Award for Outstanding Executive Women. Ms. Kolbe who earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism is married with five children and resides in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a "Quick Start/Follow Thru," which means her Natural Advantage™ predicts her role as a theorist.