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Personal Encodings

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People thrive when work activates their deeper capacities

Collins defines encodings as durable capacities within a person that emerge through experience, and says phases of life tend to work best when people are doing something aligned with those capacities rather than merely something they are good at.

Jim Collins Personal Encodings Source at 7:21

Encodings emerge through an ongoing process of discovery

Collins says people continually discover their own encodings and can also have them revealed by others who recognize latent strengths and place them in situations where those strengths become active.

Jim Collins Personal Encodings Source at 9:35

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