Our Integrator is a high Follow Thru who wants to spend six months cleaning up our standard operating procedures before we build any AI tools, while our visionary owner is a high Quick Start who wants to deploy tools immediately. How do we use Kolbe to resolve this conflict and move forward?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

This is a classic conative conflict between a high Quick Start who wants to innovate rapidly and a high Follow Thru who insists on system, structure, and order. To move forward without stalling your progress or creating operational chaos, you must use their Kolbe profiles to design a balanced workflow.

Your high Quick Start owner has a natural instinct to experiment and take risks. Your high Follow Thru Integrator has an instinct to organize, coordinate, and build stable systems. Do not force either of them to change their natural instincts, as this will only cause conative stress.

Instead, leverage both strengths by creating a two-step testing process. Allow the Quick Start owner to run short, low-risk experiments with new AI tools in a sandboxed environment for two weeks. This satisfies their need to innovate without disrupting current core processes.

If an experiment proves successful and shows measurable potential, hand it over to the Follow Thru Integrator. The Integrator will then take the tool, document the process, integrate it into your existing workflows, and build the necessary guardrails. By separating the experimentation phase from the scaling phase, you keep your business moving fast while ensuring your operations remain stable and orderly.