Tom Rath Quotes
Top 59 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tom Rath
Tom Rath Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Tom Rath on Wise Famous Quotes.
When we build on our strengths and daily successes - instead of focusing on failures - we simply learn more.
When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.
If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.
Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.
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.
The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.
Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.
Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.
It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.
Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.
There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.
We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.
When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.
Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
Exercise is not enough. Working out three times a week is not enough. Being active throughout the day is what keeps you healthy.
You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.
On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.
The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.
What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
Across the board, having the opportunity to develop our strengths is more important to our success than our role, our title, or even our pay.
No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer.
Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone
Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.
At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.
I have started forcing myself to substitute thinking "I'm busy" with "I need to do a better job managing my time.
Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.
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.
It turned out that looking forward to a vacation or event provided even more happiness than the event itself.
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.