The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Business and Life

This is a review for the book The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Business and Life which I received a copy of in exchange for this review.

I love how this book teaches us that no, matter how much we have you may not be happy and giving it all up isn’t going to kill you. It’s going to make you stronger and allow you to find what will truly make you happy. I believe this book should be given to every College Graudate starting there life so they don’t end up stuck in a world they don’t want to be in.

Thomas Vozzo left a lucrative career in corporate America convinced there had to be a better way to define success. In 2012, he became the first-ever CEO of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.

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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.

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. –This text refers to the hardcover edition.

Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates