I wish leaders took leadership as personally as you.

They see it as a rancor position.

They see it as power and authority.

But they don't take it as seriously as raising a child.

And you take taking care of your people as seriously as taking care of your children.

You deeply mean it.

You deeply feel it.

I know people who turn it on and turn it off,

and you can't turn it off. It's core to who you are. I always say, Simon, you can retire from a job,

but you can not retire from a calling. And when I look today as we talk, the issues we face in the

world, I see business as a source of destruction, creating economic

value but not human value. And I feel a profound sense of responsibility. Change the way the world

sees its responsibility to people they have the privilege of leading. I imagine a world in which

the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe

wherever they are, and end the day fulfilled by the work that they do. When most people hear

me say this, they think it's just the ramblings of a crazy idealist, and I would actually agree

with them, until I met Bob Chapman. When I met Bob, he claimed that he'd actually built a company

that embodied what I imagined. And to be honest, I didn't believe him. Again, I'm a crazy idealist

and what I imagine isn't supposed to exist in reality. It's supposed to be a striving, which is why I

wanted to go see for myself.

Bob has spent 50 years leading a company called Barry Waymiller,

and what started as a humble Midwestern manufacturing company is now a $3.6 billion

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