Foreword
Brian C. WalkerPresident and CEO, Herman Miller, Inc.
In 1927, just four years after he bought Michigan Star Furniture Company and renamed it The Herman Miller Furniture Company after his father-in-law, D.J. De Pree had an epiphany. This event has shaped attitudes at the company I work for ever since, the first expression of what’s now an inclusive and welcoming organization.
One day the company millwright died, the guy who kept all the woodworking machines in good order. D.J., like the good man he was, went to visit Hermann Rummelt’s widow at home, where he learned that Rummelt was a poet, an expert craftsman, a good family man, and a counselor to veterans of the Great War worried because they had killed so many people. A deeply religious ...
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