1 . Qualities of good leaders

Leaders are needed to manage a country or any organization. They are very important people. Under good leaders, the country will be stable and peaceful. In this way, it can make great progress.

    1     They too need good leaders to lead them. They cannot grow or do well without good management or leaders. Schools too need leaders. They are the headmaster, class monitors, prefects, and game captains. All of them have an important role to play to ensure the smooth running of the schoo1. At home, parents are the leaders guiding the family.

    2     A leader should take his work or position seriously and carry out his duties to the best of his ability. He should always think of what is best for his people, whether they are staff members, family, or any group of people.

A leader is also someone who helps others become more than they ever thought was possible. Leadership is about unlocking potential, whether individual potential or that of a group, company, or organization.     3     Instead, it is inspiring them to see what they are capable of and then helping them get there.

Leaders of a country should always put the interests of their people first. They have to be approachable, caring, and concerned about the welfare of those under them. A good leader should be willing to listen to his people’s problems or suggestions.     4    

It is not easy to be a good and true leader.     5     True and good leadership requires one to make sacrifices, including putting others before oneself. He is often the mentor who prompts others to be their best, someone who cares and listens, and is willing to always be there for them.

2 . Why You’re More Creative in Coffee Shops

Some of the most successful people in history have done their best work in coffee shops.     1     . Among them are Pablo Picasso, J.K. Rowling, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bob Dylan.

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Some of us stick in our ear buds (耳塞) as soon as we sit down to work in a public setting. But scientists have known for years that background noise can benefit our creative thinking. A study showed that a modest level of surrounding noise in a place like a cafeteria can actually promote your creative output. The idea is that if you’re very slightly distracted from the task at hand by surroundings, it raises your abstract thinking ability.     3    

Air of informality (非正式)

The typical coffee-shop user might be a lone worker struggling with a creative effort.     4     There is a formal air when gathering on digital meeting platforms. By contrast, there is an informal atmosphere when meeting up at a bar or cafe. All those audio and visual stimuli (刺激物) help groups, too, compared to the meeting in a formal meeting room.

Visual variety

    5     Often we sit in the same chair and look at the same four walls all day long. In the coffee shops, people come and go. The daylight changes. The pleasant smells of coffee and food vary. While we tend not to take conscious (有意识的) notice of these micro-stimuli, and likely don’t openly choose to work in this location because of them, these activities around us make our brains work a bit differently than at home.

3 . There are several websites designed to help foreign visitors find a job in New Zealand, as well as a number of different travel packages available that assist those who are coming to the country for the first time to work.     1    , providing help at every step of your job application process and giving you access to a unique database of vacancies (空缺).

    2    . It means there are certain roles which the country is looking to fill with workers from overseas. If you have these skills or have worked in a sought-after industry then you may find it easier to get a job, but there are also a lot of temporary and seasonal vacancies for all people seeking employment.

Some visas require you to have a job offer before you are qualified to enter New Zealand, but Working Holiday Visas mean you can come to the country and then start searching for employment.     3    .

Businesses and work ethic (道德) in New Zealand differ from elsewhere in the world, and it is worth noting that employers will be looking for individuals with a particularly positive and “can-do” attitude during job interviews.     4    .

Common job roles that travellers tend to fill during their time in New Zealand include farm work, fruit picking, working during a ski season, or taking a part-time position in the service industry.     5    , and their temporary nature means you can travel across the country and pick up different jobs as you go.

4 . Oliver, the CTO of a high-tech company, loved to participate in all conversations at the C-suite level, regardless of topic. He was often the first to raise his hand for a project, appeared to have infinite capacity to get high-quality work done, and offered to assist his peers and direct reports. Oliver seemed to be all-in; optimistic, energetic, supportive, and someone who constituted to everyone.

However, the more Oliver participated, the more others around him were slighted. Instead of sparking creatively in others, his ideas outshone everyone else’s. He consumed time speaking in meetings, exhausting the oxygen level in the room. Oliver felt pumped up by how many of his ideas had been deployed but frustrated by others’ lack of sufficient effort.

While the CEO appreciated Oliver’s yield, she recognized he had to change his approach to keep the rest of the team productive. In response, Oliver worked out a plan to help address his cooperation challenges using techniques many other executives had deployed.

When we over-participate, we believe that we're being helpful. However, “helpfulness” is defined by the recipient, not the giver. Instead of improving his relationships with colleagues, Oliver robbed them of fulfillment by furnishing masses of ideas. They felt discouraged, interrupted, and excluded. To fix the issue, Oliver learned the value of asking two specific questions before offering his own ideas: “What have you thought of?” and “What would be most helpful for you at this point?” Surveying others to understand what’s helpful illuminates better avenues for our contribution: directly through our ideas, through coaching colleagues to create their own, or by building on what someone else has generated.

7 . Finding a job you are truly enthusiastic about can feel a lot like falling in love. You become excited, and you can feel yourself changing for the better. But what happens when you get used to it?     1    . In some cases, when relationships last for this long (with a person or a career) it can be difficult to tell if you still want to be in it for the long run. Here are some signs that you’ve found the one you love.

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There is always a constant stream of work coming in. But you don’t let it paralyze you. There is so much to be done because you keep getting it done. You’re in the work flow, baby. Hemingway always stopped writing when he had more to say. This is you at work. There’s always a to-do list ready to go the next day.

Remind yourself of the “bigger picture”.

There are always going to be little ordinary tasks that have to get finished-even if we don’t want to be the one to finish them.     3     . It’s even easier to get focused on how difficult and time consuming the little projects can be. But when you love the work you do, you always find a way to see the forest through the trees and remind yourself of what you are working toward.

Get inspired by the people around you.

The things they seem to accomplish can be really impressive. You admire their determination in their work and you want to support them any way you can so that they can keep being awesome. You love what you are all working toward collectively as a team.     4    . So by admiring the work of others, it’s coming from a place of admiring your own work as well.

Look at your after-work life in terms of work.

    5    : You like your work, so you also like thinking about it outside of office hours. You find yourself solving problems, brainstorming ideas, and thinking in terms of how something in your life relates to something in your work. Like Newton and the apple, sometimes your greatest ideas come to you when you are far from the office.

8 . Animal rescuer and cinematographer Douglas Thorn’s passion for animals began when he was a little kid. “I started rescuing orphaned baby animals,” Thorn says. “And I wanted to be a wildlife cinematographer.”

When Thron grew up, he did just that, working for shows like Discovery Channels Shark Week, filming the great white sharks off the coast of Santa Cruz, California. But Thron says it was the Paradise Fire in California in 2018 that “pushed” him to do animal rescue activism work, putting his aerial cinematography skills to good use.

At the time, Thron was filming a man who was rescuing cats after the fire using an infrared hand-held camera. The camera uses heat to detect the animals at night Thron and the man talked about how incredible it would be to put one on a drone to detect animals more easily. “The animal's body temperature will glow on the screen and you can pick them out among the bricks and stones,” explains Thron.

The first animal Thron ever rescued was a dog in the Bahamas after a category-5 hurricane hit, which wiped out hundreds of houses. Thron tested out putting an infrared scope on a drone and found the dog.

“The drone really shaves off critical time so that the really badly hurt animals are able to be rescued,” Thron says. Once the scope picks up the “heat signature of an animal”, Thron turns a spotlight on the animal and zooms in on it, so he and the rescue crews can go and save the animal.

Thron has basically been “going non-stop since then”. His TV show, Doug to the Rescue, shows some of his heart-warming animal rescues, including after Hurricane Laura in Louisiana in 2020 and after fires in Northern California and Oregon. Thron also helped rescue koalas after fires damaged parts of Australia in 2020.

10 . When it comes to breaking rules during a job search, career coach Angela Copeland encourages jobseekers to think beyond the normal barriers or unspoken rules.

“It’s always been my philosophy that you have to think outside the box.     1     because then no one is going to know who you are,” says Copeland. The best jobs, she says, go to those who try harder, who are creative and who break the rules in their job search.

Copeland offers four top rules to break while looking for a job.

1. Don’t listen to HR about how to apply.

The standard line is to apply for a job online. Copeland suggests finding other ways to apply, too, whether it is in person, via a headhunter or through a friend inside the company.     2    .

2. Don’t worry if you don’t meet all qualifications.

    3    . The hiring manager will be interviewing candidates who don’t have all the qualifications, which often is a wish list for the company. There will be parts of the job description that are optional or that they’re willing to teach you.

3. Don’t worry about bothering people.

Put yourself out there and network with people in your industry. Attend events and reach out to people by email or phone. Out of 10 contacts, you may only have three who respond.     4    .

4. Don’t be afraid of social media.

When applying for jobs, know that potential employers will Google you and look through your social media profiles.     5    . But also use social media to meet new people. Many senior executives manage their own accounts online, and it’s good to engage with them when possible.