Tag: books
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How Childhood Reading Shapes Professional Leadership
Discover how childhood reading shapes professional leadership. Learn through personal stories from a tropical island upbringing. Gain global career insights.
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Books That Shaped My Career in International Development
A UN professional from Seychelles shares three transformative books. These books range from a statistics primer to a leadership classic. They have shaped decades of international development work.
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Lessons from High School Literature that Transformed My Perspective
High school can feel like an academic assembly line with a rote memorization, regurgitation, and repetition process. Yet occasionally, transformative learning emerges from unexpected corners of the curriculum. For me, that corner was Mrs. McQueen’s English Literature class, junior year. While my classmates groaned at the hefty reading list, I was intrigued by two particular…
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Work as Redemption: Insights from Les Misérables
Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables” offers one of literature’s most in-depth studies on how work provides more than just subsistence. Work can be a pathway to redemption and a means to discover identity and service. This is shown through the transformation of its hero, Jean Valjean. His journey and transformation from convict to benefactor highlight the…
L J Padayachy 