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If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year's insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense.

From 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.

From Tom Rath

I'm a researcher, so I'm realistic that there's nothing I'm doing that's going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down.

From Tom Rath

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

From Tom Rath

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

From Tom Rath

On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.

From Tom Rath

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.

From Tom Rath

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

From 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.

From Tom Rath

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.

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