Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family

20 Dec 2015 · 1 min

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A speaker recounts meeting Bob Chapman and visiting Barry Wehmiller-owned factories, describing powerful examples of empathy and humanity in the workplace. The speaker is surprised to find that the humane, family-like approach to running businesses he advocated actually exists in practice and moves employees to strong emotional responses.

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I had the pleasure of meeting Bob Chapman, and he approached me and says, you know, I'm building the kind of company that you talk about. And my reaction was, I want to see it, because I'm an idealist. I talk about what it should look like in the ideal. And I had the great honor and pleasure of traveling around the country and seeing many of the factories that Barry Wehmiller owns. And I walked away stunned. I realized that I can no longer be accused of being a crazy idealist if what I believe exists in reality. I saw people who would literally come to tears talking about their jobs. I saw an empathy and a humanity that exists that I honestly didn't believe could be that good. And Bob's little experiment in humanity has turned out to be not only the right way to run a business, but just something absolutely beautiful to see.
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