Eric Siu explains how to become the most powerful person in any room: stop trying to be interesting and become the most interested instead. Connect people who need something with those who can help, and consistently show up for others to build a network that compounds over time.
Instead of trying to be the most interesting person in the room, try to be the most interested. And what I mean by that is being able to connect the dots. If I understand that Bob needs something and I know that Sally has that something, I'm going to try to make that connection over and over and over. And eventually you become known as the connector. And if you're the one that's being helpful all the time, people are going to remember that. People will just naturally know that you are the guy when it comes to X, Y, and Z. And you do that enough, guaranteed you're going to be able to compound that network over time.
