The Homeboy Way, Thomas Vozzo
The Homeboy Way, Thomas Vozzo
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

The Homeboy Way
A Radical Approach to Business and Life

Author: Thomas Vozzo, Gregory Boyle

Narrator: James Lurie

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/22/2022


Synopsis

Breaking the Rules

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 re-entry 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 8 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 Fr. 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eliza on April 12, 2022

If you read this book for only one reason ~ Let That Reason Be Love ~ Love of Souls / People ~ A City Needs People ~ Cities Need Jobs ~ Jobs Support Cities ~ Resource of People ~ Love The People The City Has ~ Los Angeles is a City of Angels ~ Find Them in This Book My experience is based on Homegir......more

Goodreads review by WillyB on September 07, 2024

Like anything Homeboy related I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would probably say it’s closer to a 4.5 star than it is a 5 star, however I still really enjoyed the book. Though there were a few pieces that were either rambled or brought up multiple times, I did enjoy reading Tom Vozzo’s perspective......more

Goodreads review by Samuel on May 02, 2023

A short and exceptional book that gives an inside look to what makes Homeboy such a great organization. I found it affirming to hear someone who spent years at the highest level of corporate America ackowledge their privilege, sympathize with people who have experienced trauma and poverty, and raise......more

Goodreads review by Aj on March 10, 2024

I appreciated the vulnerability and openness about Homeboy Industries business practices from the author and CEO Thomas Vozzo. The approach outlined in this book is a different way of doing business that puts people first to alleviate poverty. It is possible as this book shows.......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on March 15, 2023

As an employer that works actively to hire folks with felony convictions and justice involved pasts, this book was interesting and informative. I think that there were some really great points, but there were also some pieces that got lost in the weeds or felt a bit too redundant or boastful. Parts......more