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🚀 Innovation Starts With People #shorts

3 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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A very short conversational clip where two speakers contrast rationality and innovation, arguing that rationality is a tool while innovation provides the insights and ideas for next steps. Speaker B references the book Everybody Matters by Bob Chapman and recounts Barry Wehmiller’s people-centered leadership motto, “we build people,” to emphasize that organizations succeed by investing in people.

Of course not. Rationality is a tool, but innovation is what's going to give you the insight or the ideas for what to do next and what might be best.
You know, the story you shared reminded me of this book that I just read last weekend called Everybody Matters by Bob Chapman, where he talks about Barry Wehmiller, a highly capital intensive construction company. They make capital equipment. But when he asks, when he's asked, what does your company do? He answers, we build people.
Yeah.