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Tom Rath
American
Author
Better
Day
People
Time
Work
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
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Zig Ziglar
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
Tom Rath
Great
Reality
Unlikely
Statistician
Struggled
Always
Accountant
Person
Who
Numbers
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
Tom Rath
Work
Daily
Worth
Better
Give
Give And Take
Take
Takes
Making
Effort
Choices
Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them.
Tom Rath
People
Negative
Focus
Nothing
Changed
Other
Negativity
Our
Way
Destructive
Alleviate
Instead
Does
Interactions
Them
Should
Ignoring
Brief
Things
Treating
Need
The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.
Tom Rath
Life
Time
Long
Healthy
Odds
Over
Greatly
Improve
Choices
Your
Right
Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance.
Tom Rath
Best
People
Financial
Drive
Right People
Must
Performance
Attract
Executives
Priority
Wellbeing
Want
Place
Company
Keep
Right
I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.
Tom Rath
Positive
Good
Needs
You
Reality
Realistic
Positivity
Recommend
Would
Absolutely
Emotion
Excessive
Sincere
Optimism
Any
Against
Infusing
Meaningful
Much
Grounded
Workplace
When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there who are not doing an adequate job.
Tom Rath
Time
You
Cleaning
People
Job
Enjoy
Worse
Spent
Adequate
Out
About
Boss
Leaders
House
Doing
Lot
Than
Ask
Who
Even
Even Worse
There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.
Tom Rath
Wisdom
Me
Relationship
Important
Building
Thinking
Says
Valued
Some
Seem
More
Leaders
Spoken
Highly
Said
Than
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Which
Much
Should
Strategic
Based
Nearly
I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.
Tom Rath
Cancer
First
Lost
Other
Eye
Out
Area
Host
Had
Since
Disease
Found
I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.
Tom Rath
People
Personality
Matter
Thought
Some People
Destined
Those
Jobs
Tried
Some
Could
Because
Always
How
Were
Disengaged
Managers
Just
Much
Hard
Who
I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.
Tom Rath
Trust
Leader
Important
Think
Relationships
Followers
Through
Primarily
Because
Built
His
Currency
Team
Foundational
At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.
Tom Rath
People
Organization
Jobs
Constancy
More
Headed
Know
Very
Where
Basic
Level
Need
Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.
Tom Rath
Organization
Sense
Thinking
Security
Constantly
About
Throughout
Leaders
Doing
Stability
Create
Basic
Need
The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.
Tom Rath
Time
Job
Thinking
Spend
Way
Bit
Some
About
More
Developing
Quickest Way
Friendships
Closer
Happier
Little
Little Bit
Engaged
Your
The most important thing executives can do is send a very clear message to their employees that they care about each person's overall wellbeing and that they want to be a part of helping it improve over time.
Tom Rath
Time
Care
Employees
Important
About
Part
Clear
Clear Message
Over
Overall
Most
Message
Most Important Thing
Executives
Important Thing
Wellbeing
Very
Improve
Person
Send
The Most Important
Want
Helping
Each
Thing
I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing.
Tom Rath
Health
You
Language
Few
Some
About
Risk
Could
Spoken
Employers
Attractive
Talking
Least
Wellbeing
Moved
Use
Who
Away
Start
I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.
Tom Rath
People
Smart
Example
Seen
Local
Way
Finances
About
Something
Small
Investment
Retirement
For Example
Wellbeing
Passionate
Effective
Offering
Get
Improves
Managing
Who
Teams
Strategies
Even
Among
I've seen so many people - loved ones and colleagues - who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next.
Tom Rath
Good
People
Seen
Build
Colleagues
Out
One Thing
Some
Lifestyle
Instead
Bouncing
Exercise
Were
Jump
Trying
Diet
So Many People
Loved
Loved Ones
Regimen
Us
Next
Figure
Who
Many
Each
Thing
Basic
Things
Basic Things
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.
Tom Rath
Work
Good
Morning
You
Better
Seen
Same Thing
Research
Sleeping
Out
Eat
Eating
Emerge
About
More
Likely
Make
Around
Get
Same
Interaction
Moving
Work Out
Next
Choices
Next Morning
Right
Thing
Night
Sleep
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.
Tom Rath
Time
Health
Family
You
Benefits
School
Church
Community
Group
Active
Embark
Kids
More
Foods
Student
Over
Likely
Stick
Makes
Provide
Effort
Improve
Them
Your
Help
Right
Program
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
Tom Rath
Knowledge
Heart
Cancer
Other
Chronic
Prevent
Vast
Heart Disease
Disease
Staggering
Illnesses
Half an hour of exercise in the morning makes for better interactions all day. Then a sound night of sleep gives me energy to tackle the next day. I am a more active parent, a better spouse, and more engaged in my work when I eat, move, and sleep well.
Tom Rath
Work
Day
Morning
Me
Better
Half
Energy
Active
All Day
Eat
Tackle
Parent
More
Gives
Hour
Well
Exercise
Makes
Spouse
Sound
Am
Move
Interactions
Then
Next
Engaged
Night
Sleep
Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions - about how you eat, move, and sleep each day - count more than you think. As I have learned from personal experience, these choices shape your life.
Tom Rath
Life
Day
You
Age
Experience
Better
Think
Eat
About
More
Small
Shape
Count
Make
Learned
How
Than
Personal
Personal Experience
Move
Regardless
Decisions
Choices
Your
Moment
Each
Each Day
Sleep
I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.
Tom Rath
Life
Decision
My Life
Because
Does
Depends
Act
Each
While the things that motivate us differ greatly from one person to the next, the outcomes do not.
Tom Rath
Outcomes
Motivate
Greatly
Person
Differ
While
Us
Next
Things
We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.
Tom Rath
Health
Giving
Community
Relationships
Our
Cases
Most
Any
Social
Measures
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