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Books To Read If You Are Leader. Being a leader is sometimes tough work. And what makes good leader even better is a desire to learn and self-improve. Broad reading habits are often a defining characteristic of our greatest leaders. Critical requirements for an effective leader are communication, emotional intelligence and organizational effectiveness and reading improves all of them. Whether young or old, experienced or inexperienced, the best way to approach personal and professional development is to always stay in the learning zone. So we’ve compiled a list of 12 books everyone should read to improve their leadership skills and to impress everyone around: 1. Rework: Change the Way You Work Forever by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried "Although it’s been out a few years, Rework is still one of my favorite business books for employees because it challenges traditional ideas about “corporate America” and helps un-teach bad habits. You can’t be a good leader...

Career development: Words That Can Ruin It. Sometimes even a couple of words you say can end your career. In order to help you avoid such mistakes and know when it is better to keep your mouth shut – we’ve collected top 5 most dangerous expressions at the work place. Let’s begin with the most annoying expression for the most employees. 1 . ‘I don’t know’ These words are perhaps the most annoying words any employer ever heard from his employees. It does not matter the situation, the question asked, you should try to avoid these words at all times. When the employer hears these words, he thinks several things – first, that you are incompetent, second - that you are not interested in the job and not able to organize the work on his own. You may be tempted to think of something and start lying just not to show that you do not know. Instead – the only right way is to get out of this situation is to say that you will figure out how to do this task in the next hour/day/two days....

The 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize will open for entries on 1st September 2016. The Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) in English written by a citizen of a Commonwealth country. Regional winners receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £5,000. Short stories translated into English from other languages are also eligible, and we invite writers from Mozambique who write in Portuguese, and writers who write in Swahili and Bengali, and who do not have an English translation of their story, to submit their stories in the original language. Entries Close 1st November 2016 official website: The Short Story | Commonwealth Writers http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/our-projects/the-short-story/