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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 anecdote 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 toughness, determination, compassion, and grit.

That’s the Homeboy Way.

100% of author royalties go to support the mission of Homeboy Industries.

2023 Illumination Book Awards Gold Medalist, Inspirational
2023 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite, Business - Motivational
2023 Catholic Media Association Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Catholc Social Teaching
 

ISBN-13: 9780829454567

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Loyola Press

Publication Date: 02-22-2022

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Since 2012, Tom has served as the first-ever CEO of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. Vozzo has led the non-profit organization forward, bringing his business expertise and vision to implement a strategic and mission-driven development plan for the organization that has resulted in doubling the size of the organization. Tom as a strong philosophy around leadership that is centered on people and processes.

Table of Contents

Foreword Gregory Boyle, SJ, Founder of Homeboy Industries vii

Prologue xi

Chapter 1 Tyranny of the Pennies: From Corporate America to a New Calling 1

Chapter 2 The Move to Homeboy Industries 13

Chapter 3 "Corporate Guy" Meets a Different Kind of Environment 23

Chapter 4 "Margin and Mission" versus "Margin or Mission" 35

Chapter 5 A Tale of Two Americas 55

Chapter 6 How Generosity and Gratitude Make a Way for Grace 73

Chapter 7 Meritocracy Does Not Always Work 93

Chapter 3 Joy Is Foundational to a Thriving Workplace 107

Chapter 9 Spiritual Journey 115

Chapter 10 Leadership Development for Racial Equity 131

Chapter 11 A New Way Forward 141

Chapter 12 As I Write This Book, Part 1: Anger 151

Chapter 13 As I Write This Book, Part 2: Racism 165

Break The Rules: 55 Beliefs, Practices, and Assumptions We All Need to Challenge 177

Acknowledgments 191

About the Author 193