The Heart of Business

In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, Bloomberg Best Book of the Year and Financial Times Top Title, former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly makes a convincing case that businesses must replace the obsessive pursuit of profits with a focus on purpose and meaning. Joly, who oversaw Best Buy’s remarkable 2012-2019 turnaround, says a business must prioritize its employees and help them find meaning in their work. In a gentle, amiable style, Joly – writing with Caroline Lambert – describes how he put these principles to work at Best Buy and outlines how you can become what he calls a “purposeful leader.”  

I have come to believe – to know – that purpose and human connections constitute the very heart of business.Hubert Joly 

A rather incredible and lengthy list of CEOs contributed rave reviews, many of which endorse Joly’s character as strongly as they do his thoughts. This speaks to how perfectly Joly – now a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and a board member of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren – captures today’s leadership zeitgeist and how many leaders believe – or say they believe - in a new, more collaborative work environment.