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The Homeboy Way

By: Thomas Vozzo, Gregory Boyle - foreword
Narrated by: James Lurie
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Leading with heart, authenticity, and purpose, Thomas Vozzo provides a clear path to a new bottom line—including 55 rules to break—bringing The Homeboy Way to life as the perfect antidote to the massive tidal currents of social injustice and inequities.

By every traditional measurement of success, Vozzo was a clear winner. In his world of billion-dollar revenues and million-dollar profits, he knew exactly what shareholders wanted and how to get it for them.

Then, through a series of fateful events, Vozzo landed as CEO of Homeboy Industries, the most successful gang intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in the country, founded by Jesuit priest Greg Boyle. “I arrived at Homeboy at a time when I needed to learn more about myself and my life’s journey,” Vozzo writes. “And after eight years of working with the poor, forgotten, and demonized people of our society, I’ve come to learn that I didn’t really know as much about life as I thought.”

Vozzo’s enlightening journey leads to his recognition that a radical approach is needed in business and in life: “What Homeboy has taught me is that we need to do business differently.… We need to bust up the system, swim upstream, avoid herd mentality.”

Blending personal stories of his day-to-day with Father Greg and the homies along with counterintuitive business ideas that are changing lives for the better, Vozzo shows you how you can live, lead, and shake things up with kinship, determination, compassion, and grit.

That’s the Homeboy Way.

©2022 Thomas Vozzo (P)2022 Recorded Books
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Life changing!

This book is life changing! Understanding the homeboy way puts things into a different perspective.

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Powerful - Elevating - 3.0

This why excites me. “after working 26 yrs in the for-profit capital sector of our economy and now after 9yrs of working with the poor, forgotten and demonized people of our society… I have come to learn I did not know as much about life as I thought.” - Thomas Vozzo

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A GREAT BOOK!

What a refreshing approach to business! Tom Vozzo beautifully blends the spiritual and business sides of life into a philosophy of how business should be run today! This is a must -read or listen by any leader in business today!

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excellent

I loved this book! So eye opening and full of paradox. Highly recommended! Should be every business' model.

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Excellent listen

Vozzo shares his story about choosing joy while standing at the margins. He shares a perspective on social impact and business and offers ways to think about how we receive and serve others.

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New text for my business ethics class

Disruption is a frequent aspect business paradigms. Let’s work to disrupt it for the good of all.

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"Truth that can NOT be denied"

Everyone needs to read this from the corporate world to anyone just out of the system. He speaks truth that can NOT be denied.

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