Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family
Bob Chapman runs Barry-Wehmiller, a nearly two hundred year old manufacturing company that grew through decades of quiet acquisitions. Everybody Matters is his account, written with Raj Sisodia of Conscious Capitalism, of shifting the company from a numbers driven culture to one built on what he calls Truly Human Leadership. Chapman describes the moment he realized that people bring the weight of work home to their families and that leaders bear responsibility for that. The book walks through the specific practices Barry-Wehmiller uses to make employees feel seen, from listening training to no layoff policies during downturns. It is one of the clearest business cases that treating people well and building a great company are not in conflict. Simon Sinek wrote the foreword and often points to Chapman as a real world example of infinite mindset leadership.
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CEO Bob Chapman and coauthor Raj Sisodia argue that companies should treat employees like family and show how Barry-Wehmiller was rebuilt around that idea.
Sinek wrote the foreword and has repeatedly named Bob Chapman as one of the leaders who most influenced his own thinking on leadership. He points to Barry-Wehmiller as a working example of the human centered culture he argues for in Leaders Eat Last.
No. The specific stories come from Barry-Wehmiller's factories, but the leadership ideas about listening, purpose, and responsibility for employees have been adopted by tech companies, hospitals, and service businesses.
Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family was written by Bob Chapman, published in 2015 by Portfolio.
Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family is 288 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.