From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes

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Sharing knowledge increases power

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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