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Leadership

The Importance of Reading

Leadership The Importance of Reading Unpleasant Literacy Rates

Even as global literacy rates are high (84%), people are reading

less and less deeply.


The National Endowment for the Arts (PDF) has found that Reading has declined among every group of adult Americans.

Leadership The Importance of Reading Important - Great Leaders & Reading

Business people seem to be reading less, particularly material unrelated to business. But deep, broad reading habits

are often a defining characteristic


of many Greatest Leaders.

Leadership The Importance of Reading Great Leaders & Reading

Reading habits can help people to catalyze:

Insight
Innovation

Creativity
Empathy

Leadership The Importance of Reading Business Leaders & Reading


Many business titans are or
have been avid readers. Many Business Leaders believe that deep,

broad reading cultivated


in them the knowledge, habits, and talents to
Steve Jobs
Great interest in William Blake

Phil Knight
He always bows when he enters his library.

improve their organizations.

Leadership The Importance of Reading Overview

The leadership benefits of

reading are wide-ranging.


Evidence suggests reading can improve intelligence and lead to innovation and insight.

Leadership The Importance of Reading Smarter People

Some studies have shown, for example, that reading makes you smarter through a larger vocabulary and more world

knowledge in addition to the


abstract reasoning skills.

Leadership The Importance of Reading Developing Creativity

Many business people claim that reading across fields is good for

creativity.
And leaders who can sample insights in other fields, and apply them to their organizations are more likely to innovate and prosper.

Leadership The Importance of Reading 1st Benefit It builds your self-image

Through reading we acquire knowledge to deal with any situation. And when we are well

prepared, our self-image and


self-confidence increase.

Leadership The Importance of Reading 2nd Benefit It maintains our attitude

Reading offers you life examples and ideas to help you to determine how you will respond to the negative things that may

happen to you during the course


of your business.

Leadership The Importance of Reading


3rd Benefit It offers exposure to self-counsel

Reading means thinking.

And thinking means developing


new ideas and perception about ourselves and other relevant elements for our life and business.

Leadership The Importance of Reading Conclusion

The best thing about reading is that we


can choose what suit us better according to the situation or specific need. Reading provides us the opportunity to

learn from past experiences or to think


about new possibilities regarding our life and business.

The Leadership Benefits of Reading Our Business Contacts


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