Drive long-term profits and growth by making the company a place your employees love. In Great Company presents a practical approach to ensure that your employees perform at their highest possible levels. It’s not about increasing salaries, offering huge bonuses, or investing in the latest employee engagement tools. The real answer is simpler, deeper, and longer-lasting: getting your people to love where they work. Founder and CEO of one of today’s top leadership development firms, Best Practices Institute, Louis Carter takes you step by step through the process of building a lasting emotional connection between your staff and your company. Carter’s proven strategy is founded on five key principles: collaboration, optimism, values, respect, and performance. Fuse them together, and your company will be the envy of your industry. This groundbreaking guide provides everything you need to create an environment where people have a strong sense of belonging―a place where people finally feel like they’re part of something big, where employees want to work collaboratively and creatively, where your staff and your company grow together. Bridge the engagement gap by ensuring that every member of your team spends their entire work day in great company. Louis Carter is the founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute. An organizational psychologist and top advisor to C-level executives of Fortune 1000 companies, he is the creator and facilitator of the BPI Senior Executive Board, an invite-only consortium of top CHROs and Heads of Global Talent. “ In Great Company offers a practical plan to help leaders at all levels make the commitment to ongoing improvement and organizational change. This is an approach that, with practice, can elevate performance, improve retention, and have a positive impact on business outcomes. By practicing the prescriptions in this book, people can be their best at work, become emotionally connected to each other and truly feel like they are in great company.” --from the foreword by Marshall Goldsmith “ In Great Company explores the humanity of an organization and the importance of emotional connectedness. It offers a set of frameworks and a plethora of practical examples and approaches that can help unleash the power of the people and extraordinary performance.”– Hubert Joly , Chairman and CEO, Best Buy "Louis' process for In Great Company really works. It develops the greatest culture, with the greatest people in place, and the greatest systems for collaboration. It is absolutely the best way to transform and generate real results. "- Brian Fishel , Chief Human Resources Officer, KeyBank "An incredibly important book that will change the way we lead and manage today. Carter distills the essence of what it takes to be a truly great leader." - Frances Hesselbein , Chairman, Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, and Editor-in-Chief, Leader to Leader Journal “An invaluable toolkit for experienced and aspiring leaders alike! Carter’s guidance through best practices checklists and immediate action steps give every leader a place to start or improve leadership skills, build effective teams, continue to grow and ultimately, achieve positive results. “ -- Karen Dyson, Lieutenant General , U.S. Army Retired, and former Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management & Comptroller "Move over IQ and EQ – it’s time to make room on the shelf for EC (Emotional Connectedness). In Great Company offers a rare combination of in-depth analysis and Monday-morning pragmatism to uncover the essential ingredient of true organizational and leadership success.”- Paul L. Corona , MBA, EdD, Clinical Associate Professor of Leadership, and Director of Full-Time MBA Leadership Development, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University Louis Carter is the founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute. An organizational psychologist and top advisor to C-level executives of Fortune 1000 companies, he is the creator and facilitator of the BPI Senior Executive Board, an invite-only consortium of top CHROs and Heads of Global Talent.