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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For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures.
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It's certainly emboldened those who would be president to come up here a little earlier and show a little leg. As they do that, as folks come through, they talk more about their take on issues, and they're less likely to toe the White House line on everything.
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The message that gets circulated from the White House is that this president shouldn't be made a lame duck before his time.
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It took each of them a little while to get used to the other and in the end this was inevitable. I don't think the governor was taken by the pressure one way or the other. I think the governor was not going to be rushed. He was going to do this on his own time.
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Each treats the other with a great deal of respect. The relationships between the offices have been very professional and looking at both sides.
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During the second quarter, there was a real focus on the new 'nifty fifty.' The biggest cap growth stocks performed the best in the quarter. Small stocks didn't do so well and IPO's were tough,
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I've seen it both ways, top down and bottom up and this one is not being dictated by Austin or anywhere,
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'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.
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Occasionally their New England roots make them a little embarrassed and awkward about showing that side of themselves.
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Never underestimate the long-term influence of filling others' buckets.
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Simply try to turn your next conversation with someone who is negative into a more positive moment. See what happens. In most cases, they will turn around and be more positive in their next interaction.
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When you are caring for someone who is in hospice you learn all these skills that you never think you will need again. Well I had them, and I thought, why not use them? I am fortunate to be in the situation I am in right now and I have a desire to give something of myself.
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There's a lot of frustration here ? we've had a run of real bad luck. You've got such longevity in that White House team that they are tired. They need a break. They need a big piece of good luck. I don't know what it is.
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It required each of them getting comfortable with the other, ... My sense was that the political problem was perceived more from the outside of the relationship than from the inside.