Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Zusammenfassung In Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements ! bestselling authors team up to share the results of a landmark study of wellbeing and its implications for organizations and individuals. After conducting this extensive study! Rath and Harter discovered that much of what we think will improve our wellbeing is either misguided or just plain wrong. When striving to improve our lives! we're quick to buy into programs that promise to help us make money! lose weight or strengthen our relationships. While it might be easier to treat these critical areas in our lives as if they are independent! they're not. Gallup's comprehensive study of people in more than 150 countries revealed five universal! interconnected elements that shape our lives: Career Wellbeing! Social Wellbeing! Financial Wellbeing! Physical Wellbeing and Community Wellbeing. Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements provides you with a holistic view of what contributes to your wellbeing over a lifetime. As a complement to the book! you'll have the opportunity to use Gallup's online Wellbeing Finder to track and improve your wellbeing. By the time you finish reading this book! you'll have a better understanding of what makes life worthwhile. Informationen zum Autor Tom Rath is one of the most influential authors of the last decade. He studies the role of human behavior in health! business and economics. Rath writes and speaks on a range of topics! from well-being to organizational leadership. He has written several international bestsellers! including the #1 New York Times bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? In 2007! The Economist listed his book StrengthsFinder 2.0 as the top-selling business book worldwide. In total! Rath's books have sold more than 5 million copies! been translated in 16 languages and made over 250 appearances on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Rath is a senior scientist and advisor to Gallup! where he previously spent 13 years leading the organization's work on employee engagement! strengths and well-being. He has also served as vice chairman of the VHL cancer research organization. Jim Harter! Ph.D.! is Chief Scientist for Gallup's international workplace management and well-being practices. He coauthored the New York Times bestseller 12: The Elements of Great Managing ! which is based on the largest worldwide study of employee engagement. Since joining Gallup in 1985! Harter has authored or coauthored more than 1!000 research studies! some of which have been reported on in bestselling management books! academic articles! book chapters and publications such as USA Today ! The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times . He is coauthor of Manage Your Human Sigma! published in the Harvard Business Review . Harter earned his doctorate in psychological and cultural studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jim and his wife! RaLinda! and their sons! Joey and Sam! live in Omaha! Nebraska. Klappentext Aimed at a general audience! this work shows the interconnections among those five elements that shape the way people evaluate their lives. Included with the book is a unique access to an online program designed to help readers track their well-being. ...

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Jim Harter, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist, Workplace for Gallup and bestselling coauthor of Culture Shock, Wellbeing at Work, It’s the Manager, 12: The Elements of Great Managing *and Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements. His research is also featured in the groundbreaking *New York Times bestseller, First, Break All the Rules. Dr. Harter has led more than 1,000 studies of workplace effectiveness, including the largest ongoing meta-analysis of human potential and business unit performance. His work has also appeared in many publications, including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and *The Wall Street Journal, *and in many prominent academic journals.

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When striving to improve our lives, we re quick to buy into programs that promise to help us make money, lose weight, or strengthen our relationships.
While it might be easier to treat these critical areas in our lives as if they are independent, they re not. Gallup s comprehensive study of people in more than 150 countries revealed five universal, interconnected elements that shape our lives: Career Wellbeing, Social Wellbeing, Financial Wellbeing, Physical Wellbeing, and Community Wellbeing.
"Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements" provides you with a holistic view of what contributes to your wellbeing over a lifetime. Written in a conversational style by #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tom Rath and bestselling author Jim Harter, Ph.D., this book is filled with fascinating research and innovative ideas for boosting your wellbeing in each of these five areas. As a complement to the book, you ll have the opportunity to use Gallup s online Wellbeing Finder to track and improve your wellbeing.
By the time you finish reading this book, you ll have a better understanding of what makes life worthwhile. This will enable you to enjoy each day and get more out of your life while boosting the wellbeing of your friends, family members, colleagues, and others in your community.
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A wide-ranging book that will help readers improve their careers, relationships, finances, physical health and community wellbeing.