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Tom Rath Quotes

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

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

Positive defaults protect you from yourself – and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

– Tom Rath

I think the term ‘friend’ itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term ‘good friend’ is overused. Adding the word ‘vital’ provides a clear definition of what we mean.

– Tom Rath

Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

– Tom Rath

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

– Tom Rath

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.

– Tom Rath

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

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

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.

– Tom Rath

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

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

What works for one person’s needs is almost always very different from the next.

– Tom Rath

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

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

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.

– Tom Rath

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.

– Tom Rath

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

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don’t always do that.

– Tom Rath

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments – and relationships are crucial in business.

– Tom Rath

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

– Tom Rath

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.

– Tom Rath

When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.

– Tom Rath

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

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

– Tom Rath

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

– Tom Rath

We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences.

– Tom Rath

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

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

It’s unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it’s unlikely that he or she will be the same person who’s pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.

– Tom Rath

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