John Mackey: The Whole Story

FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Join the co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, as he discusses his new book, The Whole Story: Adventures in Life, Love, and Capitalism, which delves into his 44-year journey with Whole Foods. John shares insights on balancing profit and mission, the importance of operational efficiency, and the lessons he learned from mistakes along the way. He also reflects on the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon and his new venture, Love Life, a holistic health membership club. Execute Your Strategic Goals and Create Breakthrough Results: Rather than just a theory, The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a proven set of principles designed to help leaders consistently achieve breakthrough results. This shareable guide gives an overview of each discipline to help you get started on achieving your goals by executing on your priorities.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's twice weekly podcast on Leadership
0:15.0	with Scott Miller. That's me. I'm your host and interviewer each week where on
0:19.0	Tuesdays and Fridays we release we hope influential interviews with people from all
0:24.9	walks of life whether they are CEOs founders entrepreneurs researchers
0:29.9	academics best-selling authors, movie actors, celebrities, some cases they are people that are
0:37.7	not necessarily household names, but they've survived and thrived through some unspeakable
0:42.0	tragedy that have shown the vulnerability and
0:44.5	courage to come on to the podcast and help you become a better leader, a better
0:50.4	a family member, a better human citizen.
0:52.5	And today I am delighted to shine Franklin Covey's megawatt spotlight on John Mackie.
0:58.6	You know him, of course, as the co-founder and visionary behind Whole Foods.
1:02.2	He was a 44 year CEO of this organization now with
1:06.8	a footprint of close to 550 stores around the world. His book has just released called The Whole Story.
1:17.1	Adventures in Life, Love, and Capitalism.
1:21.0	John, welcome to on leadership.
1:24.0	Thanks for having me on, Scott.
1:25.0	Great to have you, sir.
1:26.0	John, I have lots of questions to ask you because your book is a very, no pun intended, open book about the journey of Whole Foods your own leadership
1:35.7	philosophy your business philosophy you discuss a lot in there about ups and
1:40.5	downs and the business about acquisitions, potential mergers, things that went right, things
1:45.9	that you struggled with, your operational excellence.
1:49.2	And so I'm going to ask a lot of those questions today, you know how has the organization
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