Our Books
The Plain Truth About Employee Engagement and Your Bottom Line
By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden
This revised and expanded edition of the original Contented Cows Give Better Milk, offers a new business case, new companies, new research to make the point that creating a focused, engaged, and capably led workforce is one of the best things any organization can do for its bottom line.
If you liked the original, you’re gonna love the new edition. Chock full of prescriptive advice for leaders who want to turn their workforces into a vibrant competitive weapon, Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk offers updated case studies and inspiring examples from real organizations that make employee engagement a vital part of their business strategy.
Available from Amazon:
Hardcover
Kindle e-book
Audiobook from Audible
Or, to order directly from Contented Cow Partners, please call +1-904-720-0870 or email. We’re happy to personalize and autograph copies purchased directly from the authors.
Practical Lessons for Frontine Leaders (and their Bosses) in the New World
By Meredith Kimbell, Richard Hadden, and Bill Catlette
Emerging from the ashes of an eight year period that witnessed the outright collapse or systemic failure of Enron, Worldcom, Lehman Brothers, AIG, your bank, my airline, and who knows which auto companies, are a new set of realities and expectations that profoundly impact the way people conduct their lives, their relationships, and their work.
Rebooting Leadership, written primarily for 1st and 2nd managers (but also for their bosses), provides proven, practical advice for leaders interested in excelling in a world where folks are wrapped way too tight, trust is at its nadir, the deal in the workplace has been turned on its head, and speed is the key differentiator.
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Or, to order directly from Contented Cow Partners, please call +1-904-720-0870 or email. We’re happy to personalize and autograph copies purchased directly from the authors.
How Good Leaders Get People to Put More OOMPH! Into their Work
By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden
What’s it about? Discretionary Effort and Employee Engagement.
Who’s it for? Leaders, at all levels, charged with getting maximum productivity and engagement from a willing, enthusiastic workforce.
How’s it written? At once funny, irreverent, and deadly serious. Real leaders, in real companies, getting real people to go the extra mile in hot pursuit of organizational objectives – like serving customers and earning a profit. Full of stories, examples, and prescriptive advice for leaders who need to turn their teams into a vibrant, competitive weapon.
Available from Amazon:
Paperback
Or, to order directly from Contented Cow Partners, please call +1-904-720-0870 or email. We’re happy to personalize and autograph copies purchased directly from the authors.
An Interview Guide
By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden
A great tool for asking just the right questions for each job. “Finding Great People: The Interview Guide” contains interview questions for 25 behaviorally anchored job dimensions, such as Rapport Building, Team Orientation, Resilience, Creativity, Attention, Tolerance for Repetitive Tasks, etc.
Select the dimensions that are important for the job, then, use the questions for each significant dimension in guiding the interview with each candidate.
This is an electronic book, available, at no cost to you, for immediate download.
The plain truth about employee relations and your bottom line
By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden
This classic book is no longer in print
This is where it all began. The original Contented Cows Give Better Milk, published in 1998, was the first book to make the bottom line business case that if you treat people right, you’ll make more money.
After selling tens of thousands of copies, this book was retired, to make way for its successor, Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk.
We’ve held onto a few copies, and although it’s no longer generally available through ordinary retail channels, we’re told you can still find a copy here and there, from online and traditional booksellers.