Global literacy rates are high but reading levels are declining. Deep, broad reading was a defining characteristic of many great leaders and can help develop leadership skills like insight, creativity, innovation, and empathy. Studies show reading improves intelligence and reasoning abilities. Business leaders who read widely in different fields are more likely to be innovative and apply new ideas to their organizations. The benefits of reading include building self-image and confidence, maintaining a positive attitude, and gaining self-awareness through exposure to new ideas and perspectives.

1. Leadership
The Importance of Reading

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Leadership – The Importance of Reading
Great Leaders & Reading
Reading habits can help
people to catalyze:
Insight Creativity
Innovation Empathy

5. 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 Phil Knight
Great interest He always bows when improve their organizations.
in William Blake he enters his library.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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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.

12. 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.

13. The Leadership Benefits of Reading
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