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Episode 9: What is the purpose of work? A discussion with Hubert Joly, former Best Buy CEO & author of The Heart of Business. This delightful conversation discussing the meaning and purpose of work with Hubert Joly, who not only has written a book that he published in 2021 called The Heart of Business , but who has also had to practice what he preaches in an executive career that culminated in being the CEO of consumer electronics retailer Best Buy from 2012 through 2019. Joly’s
work at Best Buy and elsewhere earned him
numerous "best CEO" accolades and put the company at the top of Barron’s "most sustainable companies" list.
Image top: Christopher Michaelson. Image bottom: Hubert Joly. Images taken during the Michaelson / Joly virtual podcast discussion.
Work in Progress with Christopher Michaelson, discusses every working person’s work in progress, namely, our quest to be fully human in a working world that all too often makes us feel like machines, in which we often don’t even have time to think, and that, in the words of Studs Terkel, too often feels like 'a Monday through Friday sort of dying.'”
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