From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes
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Sharing knowledge increases power
From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes
Sharing knowledge increases power
- [Pete] In your book, "Glue," on the chapter about note-taking, you mention that when you are consistently taking down notes and sending them out, you're really effectively cementing the impression of being a subject matter expert to those that you're sending the notes to. Can you tell us about that? - [Anh] That's right, absolutely. I see the note-taking as a way to actually get informal power. And so I tell people all the time, information is power, and when you capture information, and you send it out and distribute it, you start to become seen as a subject matter expert on the information that you're putting out there. There's a misconception that you capture information, and some people will capture information and hoard it as a source of power, but, to me, it's actually the opposite. If you think about, let's say, you know, reputable newspapers or content sites, the reason that people see them as an expert is because they put their content out there, and then when people think…
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Note-taking is a superpower1m 50s
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Sharing knowledge increases power1m 22s
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Notes prompt reciprocation2m 17s
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Learn to type faster2m 32s
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Note-taking improves learning2m 5s
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Colleagues don’t mind you typing2m 38s
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Clarify decisions and actions2m 49s
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Synthesize sequences and highlight gaps3m 38s
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Share inferences by connecting dots2m 14s
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Understand the why3m 16s
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Use the tools you know best2m 3s
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