Tom Rath
Tom Rath
Tom Rath is an American author, researcher, and speaker whose books have sold more than 5 million copies and have been translated into sixteen languages. He is best known for his studies on strengths based leadership and wellbeing and synthesizing research findings in a series of bestselling books...
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If a school makes an effort to provide kids the right foods and help them to be more active, this benefits the student and the family's health. If you embark on a program to improve your health with a church or community group, you are more likely to stick with it over time.
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At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.
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I talk about an enthusiasm deficit, and I think we have a little bit of that. They say we need to get our act together. They still love this president. But they want to see movement on the things that brought us to power. We took the government over and promised to fix things.
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We had some people in that delegation who were very close to -- and great fans of -- Senator McCain. And they were front and center when he came, and I think that that was totally appropriate after his run four years ago.
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When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.
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Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.
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You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.
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Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.
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When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day.
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What we've learned is that if you can make the right decision in the supermarket aisle, it's a heck of a lot easier to make a good decision when you reach in your cupboard when you're craving a snack at eight o'clock at night.
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I've seen the same thing emerge in the research around the interaction of sleeping and moving and eating: if you get a good night's sleep, you are significantly more likely to make the right choices about what you eat the next morning, you're more likely to work out, you're more likely to get a better night's sleep the next night.
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People who say they have a best friend at work are seven times as likely to be engaged in what they're doing. And if they don't have a best friend at work, the odds of being engaged are just 1 in 12.
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Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.
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When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.