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The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Business and Life Hardcover – February 22, 2022

by Thomas Vozzo (Author), Gregory Boyle (Foreword)
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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
 
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    February 22, 2022
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  6. ISBN-10
    082945456X
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    978-0829454567
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What is Homeboy Industries? For over 30 years, Homeboy Industries has stood as a beacon of hope in Los Angeles providing training and support to formerly gang involved and previously incarcerated people allowing them to redirect their lives and become contributing members of our community.

About the Author

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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Loyola Press (February 22, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 082945456X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0829454567
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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About Thomas Vozzo

Author, Social Enterprise Builder and Thought-Leader

Thomas Vozzo was a successful corporate leader with a reputation for results. But decades into his career, he began to feel like something was missing – a thought that would eventually lead him to become the Chief Executive Officer at Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. For more than 34 years, Homeboy Industries has been a beacon of hope in Los Angeles, providing training and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated individuals, helping them to heal and redirect their lives.

A decade into his executive leadership role at Homeboy Industries – Vozzo is now also debuting as the author of: The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Leadership and Life. Written with heartfelt authenticity and purpose, Vozzo invites corporate America and leaders everywhere to create a new bottom line, challenge the corporate status quo – and combat injustice, economic and racial inequity.

On his free time, Thomas enjoys hiking, ocean swimming, travelling, and spending time with his family.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book of faith and growth
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2024
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Thomas Vozzo gives the reader a glimpse into a world of reforming gang members in the LA area, through the eyes of the nonprofit Homeboys organization. Learning about his unexpected journey to becoming CEO of Homeboy Industries, you have to admire the leap of faith he took to step away from corporate America and using his entrepreneurial expertise to save the organization from near-closure and, in the process, change the lives of many thousands of gang members. With a raw vulnerability and authenticity in his writing, he recounts stories of homeboys and homegirls as they struggle through challenges with poverty, violence, drugs, and addiction. While Thomas utilizes his wisdom and training to help grow the organization and change the lives of so many, it becomes clear as you read that through his interactions with these trainees that he has also learned valuable life lessons that can’t be taught in the corporate workspace.

This book reads like a conversation over coffee with the author, packed with unique perspectives and anecdotal life lessons that you can’t find elsewhere. I finished this book in a matter of only two sittings, and in exchange I came away with a lifetime of wisdom.
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Julie Hwang
5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible read
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024
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A fantastic book about Vozzo’s journey to enlightenment, it lends much wisdom and inspiration to the reader on his philosophy of faith, empathy, and relationships. Reading Vozzo's recount of his transition from a successful corporate career to becoming the CEO of Homeboys Industry really helped me reflect on my own choices in life. It is a privilege to be able to peer into the author's mind as he makes life-altering decisions towards his calling. This book was an inspiration for me to be more courageous, more generous, and live with conviction. Highly recommend to all.
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Colin Duffy
5.0 out of 5 stars A Lesson on Life, Business and Kinship
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2022
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Using the story of his life and experiences as a guide, Thomas Vozzo provides a nuanced account into the opportunity that the Homeboy Industries culture can provide to any of us looking to grow in faith. While on the surface this story is initially about a successful businessman, father, and philanthropist on his journey from a C-Suite titan of a Fortune 500 company to the CEO of a Los Angeles non-profit, its message is far more encompassing. Within the narrative Vozzo creates for the reader is a world at Homeboy that challenges every aspect and lesson of the for profit world he had come to know. While his previous life had accounted saving pennies for shareholder value, the budgetary balancing at Homeboy provided pennies for lives. In running an organization of former gang members often misidentified, marginalized, and trapped within a system that provides every opportunity for them to fall prey to again, Vozzo comes to learn of the need to run a financially solvent ship so as to always provide a lifeline. Through his struggles to organize and conceptualize the business of Homeboy, we learn of the love, kindness, and hope for a better future that each of the employees (those in the rehabilitation program at Homeboy) fervently holds in their hearts for themselves and those around them. In a life where many of us seek success, this book does not preach that the non-profit route is the only way for this to occur. However, it does provide an inspiring and often tear inducing story about the ways we can measure success and the power that kinship with others on a good or bad day can provide. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking for an introspective journey on business, life, and the value of selfless friendship to others.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Head & Heart
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
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Just returned from the Global Homeboy Network Gathering. This journey should be on everyone's bucket list. After being a fan for 11 years, I went to investigate the culture of Homeboy given G's books and online content. I left transformed. Balancing the tension of the Head & the Heart for deeper and more healing is the task of the hour. It requires a deep commitment to honoring both on a healing-centric team.

Tom's book invites you into a transformation of the Head and Heart. He gives us a peek under the hood of Homeboy through his lens. It's congruent with the deeper conversations I had with staff and I'm hopeful you'll read it wanting to bring The Homeboy Way to your corner of the world for your healing and for the Good people in your community. Order it now.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read that will change your perspective...
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2023
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I LOVED this book! I only wish this title was available I was still at a corporation because it gave me another way to think about and measure success. I think it also reinforces the idea of why an office environments are a place to foster ideas and share camaraderie with colleagues.

Book Highlights for me included:
-55 Rules to Break: truly thought provoking that challenge convention wisdom about meritocracy and ideas like "in this world, there are winners and losers"
-How the concepts of JOY, LAUGHTER, and GRACE should be present at work (what a novel idea!)
-Hearing about Homeboy Industries' morning meeting where everyone gathers around to get inspired for the day (it sounds very unlike the morning meetings I've attended in Corporate America in the past!)
-The idea of social enterprises - I loved learning about how Tom has taken his corporate background to create new businesses for the Homies and Homeboy Industries - it's such a smart approach

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for MEANING at work, and is ready to confront the stereotypes and biases many of us have that we don't even fully realize.

It's well worth your time!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Soft cover options for prison
Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2023
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Please come out with a softcover version so I can send to my friend in prison. I don't want them tearing this beautiful book apart if I send it with a hardcover.

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