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

Barry-Wehmiller, a manufacturing firm, has built its success on treating every employee as a valued member of a family rather than a cost to be cut. Its chief executive, Bob Chapman, along with coauthor Raj Sisodia, lays out how this approach, which the authors call Truly Human Leadership, works in practice. Many people starting out are skeptical that a company can care about workers this much, and newly acquired teams often feel the same way at first. Over time, the authors show, people discover a workplace built on trust and mutual care, where good results follow. The book argues that other organizations can abandon layoffs, rigid rules, and cutthroat competition, and it describes what changes when people are seen as more than functions on a chart.