An attorney in a large law practice is not a very successful lawyer. However, he is able to provide a valuable service to the practice--he understands the relationships that the law firm has developed with clients in a way that nobody else understands them. For example, he reminds his law partners to send out birthday notes to their clients on their birthdays because he knows when they occur. This attorney MOST LIKELY possesses ________.

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The attorney possesses information power, which is the ability to access and control valuable information that others need, but do not have. In this case, the attorney has knowledge about important relationships that the law firm has developed with clients that is not known by anyone else in the firm. Therefore, he is able to provide a valuable service by reminding his law partners to send out birthday notes to clients on their birthdays.

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