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Leading With Strengths
Paul Allen: Visionary founder behind Ancestry.com and current CEO of Soar.com
Oct 30, 2023
Paul Allen, visionary founder of Ancestry.com and current CEO of Soar.com, discusses the importance of knowing and leveraging one's strengths, the value of collecting physical relics and the frustration of organizing information, the disappearance of the personal knowledge management tool Folio, the impact of strengths in various areas of life, and the role of strengths in relationship building.
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- Understanding and leveraging individual strengths can revolutionize how people work together, leading to improved team assignments, motivation, and communication.
- Strengths such as belief, connectedness, and competition can provide resilience and help overcome adversity in career obstacles.
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Paul Allen's Career Journey and Strengths
Paul Allen, the visionary founder of ancestry.com and current CEO of SOAR.com, shares his career journey and the strengths that contributed to his success. With a focus on strategic thinking, including learner, input, ideation, intellectual, and strategic strengths, Paul describes how his passion for learning and voracious appetite for knowledge shaped his direction. He reflects on the importance of combining his thinking themes with other strengths like competition, activator, and achiever to drive innovation, create outcomes, and build something meaningful.
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