Sharpen your knowledge by joining Reading groups

Sharpen your knowledge by joining Reading groups Reading is an important part of developing leadership skills. The habit of thoughtful reading in a wide variety of areas of knowledge sharpens your mind; helps build relationships with people, and boosts, among other things, your emotional intelligence. For business leaders, interest in literature should extend far beyond business books — these can be historical works, biographies, short stories, and even poems. The best lists of must-read literature recommended by executives are often incredibly diverse. But reading is often perceived as an activity for only one person. Can a leader capitalize on the current surge in the popularity of book clubs? The answer is yes, it can. The reading groups are a unique way to improve reading efficiency that gives its members other benefits as well. They can be used by entrepreneurs who choose a book club, which includes both their friends and members of the business community. Let's find out about the advantages of book club: Advantages of joining reading groups First, book clubs develop the habit of reading systematically: The book club, gives you an effective incentive to fulfil your plans. Communication in groups helps not to turn away from the chosen path. In a world where only 8% of people achieve their goals on New Year's Eve, Mark Zuckerberg, for example, decided to publicly announce on Facebook his decision to read 26 books in a year and suggested considering his message as an appeal to the participants of a virtual book club who would not allow him to evade his promise. Among other things, book clubs help to increase the \"book literacy\" of their young and mature participants. Best-selling author Gretchen Rubin argues that the formation of positive habits tends to occur most quickly in a group. If you believe in the benefits of reading, but it is difficult for you to develop the habit of reading, it is the group that will create the necessary collective incentive for you. In addition, book clubs can teach you to better perceive different points of view: You don't have to choose every book to read in the club. On the contrary, the club will choose books for you, thanks to which you can get acquainted with such genres and works that you would hardly study on your own. Books of the most diverse content — fiction, history,

biographies, social sciences — will help pull you out of the ordinary and allow you to see the interconnectedness of ideas, which in the end can be useful both in work and in your personal life. In addition, discussing such books with a wide range of friends or colleagues will allow you to expand the horizons of your thinking. Harvard Business School widely uses the method of case analysis in training: students all get acquainted with a situation or story together and discuss it. It is this method that allows students to take into account different points of view on the same problem expressed during any discussion, forms a deeper understanding of the essence of the problem, and, ultimately, provides a choice of the most balanced solution. The interaction associated with discussing books can also create and strengthen interpersonal connections. Neil Blumenthal, the founder of Warby Parker, once described the advantage of a corporate book club: \"From a team perspective, the club fosters strong working relationships, allow you to create an atmosphere of trust in which people freely share their ideas and discuss them.\" This is also confirmed in practice. The companies that have book clubs strengthen professional relationships within the team. That being said, the benefits of reading together remain even if you don't work together. Many book clubs do book commentary, It becomes a communication tool through which people can get together and discuss common topics over dinner or by skipping a glass or two. But even those clubs that focus on the analysis of books allow you to build and develop relationships based on their joint study. Finally, discussing the contents of the book in reading groups develops your oratorical skills also. There are much more benefits of book clubs. Book clubs are booming. So sharpen your knowledge by joining book clubs now! ****END****