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  Why You Should Read Reviews After You’ve Read The Book Laura Sackton Jun 30, 2023 This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I read (and write) a lot of reviews, and while I sometimes do let them guide me toward or away from books, I find that reading reviews is most interesting, useful, and insightful not before I’ve read a book, but afterwards. In fact, I often turn to reviews soon after I finish a book. It’s one of my favorite reading rituals. I like to let my own thoughts and feelings about a book settle, and then I like to see what other folks are saying about it. Inevitably, reading these reviews, whether they’re positive, negative, or critical, deepens my understanding of the book I just read. There are so many reasons why reviews are better after you’ve read the book. There’...

  Do you dream of a work life that falls outside of the typical 9-5 or have multiple passions you want to explore? A portfolio career might be the path for you. Here’s what you need to know.  A morning spent managing a team in a café, then back home to write social media posts for a major client before replying to emails from couples enquiring about your new food business … Whether it’s holding several part-time roles or trying to build up your side hustle alongside regular work, having a portfolio career can be both stressful and satisfying. Portfolio careers are defined by Indeed as “including different job titles and roles across various sectors”, where you have more than one job at once. Many people love the variety a portfolio career gives them, with the opportunity to try new things and give space to different interests. We speak to the experts about how to make a portfolio career work, and how to decide if it’s right for you. Why choose a portfolio career? “A...

  Top-performing companies use four key management practices to turn creativity into value. Most of us can remember a couple of favorite ads. They’re funny, clever, thoughtful. Creativity can delight, even inspire. But does it generate business value? The short answer is yes. That conclusion came through clearly in McKinsey’s analysis of one widely recognized proxy for creativity. To have a quantitative measure that could be used to examine the linkage between creativity and business performance, we developed the Award Creativity Score (ACS), an index based on the prestigious Cannes Lions awards given annually for advertising and marketing excellence. 1 Stay current on your favorite topics Subscribe The ACS index weighs three factors: the total number of Lions won by each company between 2001 and 2016, with more points assigned for the most prestigious awards; the breadth of categories represented; and consistency over time, based on the number of years a company has...

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/before-skill-set-comes-mindset-fairprice-ceo-on-breakthrough-leadership?stcr=52D53345133141D7B77BD55E838766DC&cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck&hlkid=2203d22daebf4ac5ad399727d2eaa661&hctky=1237274&hdpid=1374578a-5d32-466d-9b56-18fc3c5a9738 Vipul Chawla, group CEO of Singapore’s largest supermarket chain, discusses why—and how—he prioritizes culture, purpose, and people. DOWNLOADS Article (6 pages) This interview is part of the Leading Asia series  featuring in-depth conversations with the region’s most influential leaders on what it takes to lead in Asia today. If you shopped at a FairPrice supermarket in Singapore in early 2022, there’s a small chance that the person who was working the till was none other than FairPrice’s freshly minted group CEO, Vipul Chawla. “Unless I invest at least 100 hours doing something, I don’t have the license to have a conversation with my team, let alone make decisions,” Chawl...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/24/summer-reading-50-brilliant-books-to-discover?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en Fiction Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Sittenfeld has imagined the lives and loves of both Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton in bestselling novels. This time her subject is Sally Milz, a self-deprecating scriptwriter on a Saturday Night Live-style TV show. When Sally meets Noah, a pop star she assumes to be out of her league, the ensuing romcom is lifted by Sittenfeld’s sharp writing and eye for amusing detail. A perfect beach companion. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray From the author of Skippy Dies, this epic, many-layered tragicomedy of an Irish family in crisis is as pleasurable to read as it is emotionally devastating. We enter into the mind of each family member in turn as long-held secrets, repressed desires and the bad choices of the past detonate in the present. A House for Alice by Diana Evans A sequel to Evans’s 2018 novel Ordinary Peopl...