Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Tom Rath
Rath's fast-paced and inviting storytelling makes a mountain of important research accessible and applicable, and sheds new light on relationships with coworkers, family, friends, and significant others.
From the jacket flap
What's the quickest way to ruin a friendship? Do great friendships have anything in common? Are close friendships in the workplace such a bad thing?
These are just a few of the questions that #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tom Rath asked when he embarked on a massive study about the impact of friendships. Along with several leading researchers, Rath pored through the literature, conducted several experiments, and analyzed more than 8 million interviews from The Gallup Organization's worldwide database.
His team's discoveries produced "Vital Friends," a book that challenges long-held assumptions people have about their relationships. And the team's landmark discovery -- that people who have a "best friend at work" are "seven times" as likely to be engaged in their job -- is sure to rattle the structure of organizations around the world.
Drawing on research and case studies from topics as diverse as management, marriage, and architecture, "Vital Friends" reveals what's common to all truly essential friendships: a regular "focus on what each person is contributing" to the friendship -- rather than the all-too-common approach of "expecting one person to be everything."
The book includes a unique ID code that provides access to the Vital Friends Assessment and website. This groundbreaking test reveals which friends play each of the eight vital friendship roles in your work and life.
Tom Rath's fast-paced and inviting storytelling takes a mountain of important research and makes it remarkably accessible and applicable. By the time you finish reading "Vital Friends," you'll see your coworkers, family, friends, and significant other in a whole new light.
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- Title Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without
- Author Tom Rath
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Gallup Press, New York
- Date August 1, 2006
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781595620071 / 1595620079
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 6.5 x 0.98 in (21.89 x 16.51 x 2.49 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Friendship, Interpersonal relations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006923393
- Dewey Decimal Code 658.314
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Citations
- Library Journal, 06/15/2006, Page 80
- Publishers Weekly, 05/22/2006, Page 42
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