All of a sudden, the lens through which I saw the people, the 13,000 people in our organization, was reversed.

Not as engineers, accountants, receptionist, hourly workers.

I saw them as somebody's precious child who was being placed in my care for 40 hours a week,

knowing that the way I treat them would have a profound

impact on their health and their family life, and it changed everything. The lens through which

you see people affects the way you treat people. Welcome to How Leaders Lead, where every week

you get to listen in while I interview some of the very best leaders in the world.

I break down the key learning so that by the end of the episode, you'll have something simple you can apply as you develop into a better leader.

That's what this podcast is all about.

My guest today is Bob Chapman, the chairman and CEO of Barry Waymiller. This is a $3.5 billion

company that supplies manufacturing technology all around the world. But Bob will be the first to tell you,

it's not what they do that makes them remarkable. It's the culture they've built around truly

caring for their team members

that does it. If you're struggling to build a company culture you love, or if you're an emerging

leader and you're trying to figure out your leadership style, then let me tell you, Bob is going to

show you all the ways that leadership can be a powerful force for good and how you can

infuse those principles of care into your organization's culture without compromising on results.

And you're going to have fun too because Bob is a heck of a storyteller. He really knows how to use

his stories to land a point. So here's my conversation with my good friend and soon to be yours, Bob Chapman.

Bob, it's great to have you on the show.

It's a privilege to have this exchange on something so important

to everybody in this world, which is leadership. You know, we are kindred souls. I know you've read

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