Most Popular Books by John Mackey

Featured in The Economist’s Best Books of 2024 An Adam Grant Summer Reading Pick 2024 Whole Foods Market’s Cofounder and CEO for 44 years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative account of the rise of this iconic company and the personal and spiritual journey that inspired its remarkable impact. The growth of Whole Foods isn’t just a business success story—it’s the story of a retail, cultural, and dietary revolution that has forever changed the industry and the way we eat. After more than four decades at the helm, John Mackey is ready to share never-before-told tales of the people and passions behind the beloved brand. The Whole Story invites readers on the adventure of building Whole Foods Market: the colorful cast of idealists and foodies who formed the company’s DNA, the many breakthroughs and missteps; the camaraderie and the conflict, and the narrowly avoided disasters. Mackey takes us inside some of the most consequential decisions he had to make and honestly shares his regrets looking back. Beyond the Whole Foods story, Mackey also dives into his: Spiritual journey: from Christianity to New Age mysticism, Eastern wisdom, and life-changing awakenings through psychedelics Political and intellectual development: from countercultural co-op dweller to libertarian and Conscious Capitalist Philosophical and ethical awakenings: especially with regard to animal welfare and the tension between his personal values and industry practices Personal passions: most notably, his love of long-distance, ultra-light backpacking on the great trails of our country and planet For the millions of people who know and love Whole Foods, Mackey’s story is a candid look at the fellowship and meaning born of a shared mission and how an inimitable entrepreneur shepherded a startup hippy food store into the market-leading international brand it is today.

The bestselling book, now with a new preface by the authors At once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint for a new system for doing business, Conscious Capitalism is for anyone hoping to build a more cooperative, humane, and positive future. Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue that both business and capitalism are inherently good, and they use some of today’s best-known and most successful companies to illustrate their point. From Southwest Airlines, UPS, and Tata to Costco, Panera, Google, the Container Store, and Amazon, today’s organizations are creating value for all stakeholders—including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment. Read this book and you’ll better understand how four specific tenets—higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture and management—can help build strong businesses, move capitalism closer to its highest potential, and foster a more positive environment for all of us.

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER! From Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and his coauthors, a follow-up to groundbreaking bestseller Conscious Capitalism—revealing what it takes to lead a purpose-driven, sustainable business. John Mackey started a movement when he founded Whole Foods, bringing natural, organic food to the masses and not only changing the market, but breaking the mold. Now, for the first time, Conscious Leadership closely explores the vision, virtues, and mindset that have informed Mackey’s own leadership journey, providing a roadmap for innovative, value-based leadership—in business and in society. Conscious Leadership demystifies strategies that have helped Mackey shepherd Whole Foods through four decades of incredible growth and innovation, including its recent sale to Amazon. Each chapter will challenge you to rethink conventional business wisdom through anecdotes, case studies, profiles of conscious leaders, and innovative techniques for self-development, culminating in an empowering call to action for entrepreneurs and trailblazers—to step up as leaders who see beyond the bottom line.

"Blazing Trails" chronicles John Mackey''s life as a lightning rod for attention throughout the 1960s. Mackey refused to remain silent on any topic he felt strongly about--especially anything dealing with justice. As one of Baltimore''s first famous African Americans, he fought for racial and battled for legal equality for pro football players of all color as the first president of the newly merged NFL and AFL National Football Players Associations. More than affecting the freedom of his football-playing brethren, Mackey was a major factor in using his sports fame to change the world around. What Muhammad Ali was to boxing, Arthur Ashe was to tennis, and Bill Russell was to basketball, John Mackey was to football: an African-American star who proved that the world, and not just sports, was going to become a better, more colorful place.

Whole Foods Market has long been synonymous with high-quality and healthy ingredients. Now, John Mackey, CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market, has teamed up with nutritional experts and leading chefs to create a cookbook inspired by these values. They know that cooking food yourself is the secret to changing your diet and sustaining a new lifestyle, and are sharing their favorite recipes that celebrate nutrient-rich, health-promoting whole plant foods. The Whole Foods Cookbook philosophy starts with the basic tenet that the most important dietary change you can make is to eat more fruits and vegetables. To help you navigate the nebulous world of healthy eating, the authors have written a clear and friendly introductory summary of the Whole Foods Diet''s principles, the essential 8 foods to eat, tips on setting up a stress-free kitchen, and more. You''ll also find specific guides on cooking beans and grains, building flavors, and impressive techniques like sautéing without oil and roasting to add layers of flavor. But most tantalizing are their 120 recipes covering breakfast, smoothies, entrees, pastas, pizzas, healthy desserts, and more. The ultimate goal of The Whole Foods Cookbook is to change your habits around eating and preparing food. In the midst of our busy lives, the last thing most of us need is an overly complicated diet. Get the basics right, learn to cook a few meals you love, and eat plenty of them. Once you become accustomed to the whole foods, plant-based lifestyle, you''ll quickly gain the confidence to create your own delicious variations.

What if the distinction between business and doing good vanished? What if all those who engaged in business were committed to a deeper purpose, and all those committed to doing good were entrepreneurial and enterprising? What would it take for a world of seven billion such people to solve all the world’s problems? More and more people are looking for meaning and purpose in their lives as employees, as consumers, and as investors. More and more people have more than enough material goods and are more interested in the qualities of the goods they buy; in the experiences associated with the services they provide and buy; in the way the companies they buy from act as citizens; and in self-actualization—rising up Maslow’s hierarchy. As an increasing percentage of the population reaches the point at which they no longer need more stuff, what will they do, how will they live their lives? If you are one of these people, wondering where to go from here, how to “be the solution” in the twenty-first century, Be the Solution provides an original perspective on how to create a better world. Focused entirely on entrepreneurial and Conscious Capitalist solutions to the challenges and opportunities facing humanity, Be the Solution shows how the entrepreneurial passion to create a better world, in combination with Conscious Capitalist business practices, can solve far more of the world’s problems than any other approach. In combination with leading Conscious Capitalists such as John Mackey writing on “Conscious Capitalism,” leading social entrepreneurs such as Muhammad Yunus writing on “Social Business,” and leading legal reform experts such as Hernando de Soto writing on “Is Economic Freedom for Everyone?,” entrepreneurial educator Michael Strong lays out a philosophical, social, and legal framework for a FLOW vision through which all problems may be solved entrepreneurially. FLOW, Inc., is an organization cofounded by John Mackey and Michael Strong to promote Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow as optimal experience—the state in which we are so immersed in challenging, creative activity that we forget that time is passing. To be engaged in flow activities is happiness itself. Whether we are creators of enterprises or entrepreneurially creative within our life as employees, we can embody the entrepreneurial spirit and, in the words of Michelangelo, “criticize by creating.” In addition, FLOW refers to the global flow of goods, services, capital, humans, ideas, and culture, in a positive win-win-win world based on love rather than fear. Combining the best of the positive psychology and human potential movements with the best of free market thinking, FLOW offers a unique perspective on how to Be the Solution in the twenty-first century.

The definitive guide to the optimum diet for health and wellness, from the founder of Whole Foods Market and the doctors of Forks Over Knives. The Whole Foods Diet simplifies the huge body of science, research, and advice that is available today and reveals the undeniable consensus: a whole foods, plant-based diet is the optimum diet for health and longevity. Standing on the shoulders of the Whole Foods Market brand and featuring an accessible 28-day program, delicious recipes, inspirational success stories, and a guilt-free approach to plant-based eating, The Whole Foods Diet is a life-affirming invitation to become a Whole Foodie: someone who loves to eat, loves to live, and loves to nourish themselves with nature''s bounty. If Whole Foods Market is "shorthand for a food revolution" (The New Yorker), then The Whole Foods Diet will give that revolution its bible - the unequivocal truth about what to eat for a long, healthy, disease-free life.

Un libro indispensable para toda persona que quiera construir un mundo más humano y cooperativo, y un futuro mejor para todos. La idea base es que la creación de valor de las sociedades no es sólo para los accionistas, sino para todos: clientes, empleados, proveedores, inversores, para la sociedad y el medio ambiente.A través de tener en cuenta los puntos resaltados por los autores se pueden construir mejores empresas y negocios que hagan que el capitalismo alcance todo su potencial y cree valor para todos nosotros.“Capitalismo consciente”, además de un libro, es una organización que se está internacionalizando con capítulos en distintos países del mundo para fomentar sus ideas.

Comprueba el poder de una dieta natural y prolonga la vida que te mereces. Un novedoso programa alimenticio que captura la ciencia de los alimentos naturales y pone freno a los padecimientos crónicos para que vivas más y mejor. En este libro, John Mackey, fundador de la exitosa cadena de alimentos orgánicos, Whole Foods Market, nos comparte su filosofía a través de un revolucionario programa nutricional basado 100% en alimentos naturales: 90% de plantas y 10% de productos animales, que mejoró su vida y mejorará la tuya para siempre. Junto a Mackey, los doctores Alona Pulde y Matthew Lederman, especialistas en revertir ciertas enfermedades como cáncer, diabetes y obesidad mediante la nutrición y medicina de estilo de vida, complementan este plan que te dirá cómo vivir más años en perfectas condiciones. En parte gracias a su perspectiva ética y sustentable, La fuente de la longevidad está inspirando a miles de personas en el mundo a renovar sus hábitos y a poner un alto al consumo de alimentos procesados y a la ingesta desenfrenada de carne que tanto han deteriorado su salud y la del planeta.

「意識の高さ」を成長に変える!世界の超優良企業が実践する経営スタイル! 本書は「誰もが自発的に物やサービスを自由に交換できる仕組み」である資本主義を高く評価しながら、企業が利益や株主価値の最大化を私企業の唯一の目的であるとするのは誤りだ、と説きます。そしてそれにかわる経営スタイルとして「コンシャス・キャピタリズム(意識の高い資本主義)」の実現を提案します。 ケーススタディには、イケア、スターバックス、パタゴニア、コストコ、サウスウエスト航空、ジェットブルー航空、タタ、トヨタ、トレイダー・ジョーズ、POSCOなど、数多くの事例を取り上げます。 企業理念の追求は普遍的なテーマです。 だからこそ今でも『エクセレント・カンパニー』(初刊行:1983年)や『ビジョナリーカンパニー』(1995年)が読み続けられています。 しかし時代も変われば企業理念も進化します。 世界でいちばん大切にしたい企業が実践する、経営術とは何なのか? 世界中で大切にしてもらえる企業になるにはどうしたらよいのか? 本書を紐解いてほしい。 ※本電子書籍は同名出版物を底本として作成しました。記載内容は印刷出版当時のものです。 ※印刷出版再現のため電子書籍としては不要な情報を含んでいる場合があります。 ※印刷出版とは異なる表記・表現の場合があります。予めご了承ください。 ※プレビューにてお手持ちの電子端末での表示状態をご確認の上、商品をお買い求めください。 (翔泳社)

Bestseller del New York Times Bestseller del Wall Street Journal Apparso su Super Soul Sunday di Oprah Winfrey John Mackey e Raj Sisodia sottopongono ad una serrata critica la narrazione secondo cui il capitalismo sarebbe la fonte di tutti i mali che affliggono la nostra società in quanto sfrutta i lavoratori, inganna i consumatori, genera disuguaglianza, disgrega le comunità locali e distrugge l’ambiente inseguendo una crescita che, alla fine, non può che rivelarsi insostenibile. A questa versione mercantilistica e predatoria del capitalismo, gli autori contrappongono una versione più nobile, che chiamano “Capitalismo consapevole” ed è basata su quattro princìpi fondamentali: Lo scopo di un’azienda consapevole non è creare valore solo per se stessa, ma per l’intera comunità per cui opera: clienti, dipendenti, fornitori, investitori e chiunque sia influenzato a qualunque titolo dalle sue attività. Un’azienda consapevole non ricerca la massimizzazione del profitto ad ogni costo, ma pone al centro delle sue attività il perseguimento di scopi di ordine superiore, che sono il motivo stesso della sua esistenza. Un’azienda consapevole è guidata da leader consapevoli mossi dalla dedizione nei confronti dell’impresa, di tutte le persone su cui essa ha un impatto e del pianeta che noi tutti condividiamo. Un’azienda consapevole possiede una cultura aziendale autentica, innovativa e improntata al rispetto nei confronti degli altri, grazie alla quale tutti i dipendenti possono crescere come individui e sentirsi appagati come persone. In sintesi, secondo gli autori, un capitalismo consapevole può contribuire a creare un mondo in cui miliardi di persone abbiano la possibilità di fiorire e condurre una vita piena di passione, determinazione, amore e creatività.

Updated and expanded, the New York Times bestseller that helped companies such as Whole Foods Market, Patagonia, Microsoft, and others build profitable businesses while creating value for all stakeholders. When Conscious Capitalism was first published, the ideas it contained were considered radical by many. Among the most radical is the strong belief in the extraordinary power of capitalism to do more good for people in a sustained manner than any other social or economic system invented by humankind. This message has been an inspiration to many business leaders and entrepreneurs who want to have a positive impact on the world—while also building thriving businesses that provide excellent economic returns. In this classic book, now updated and expanded, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and Conscious Capitalism, Inc., cofounder Raj Sisodia show how many of today''s most admired companies—Microsoft, Costco, UPS, Patagonia, and many others—are building strong and profitable businesses while creating value for all stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment. For the first time, Mackey and Sisodia introduce a new principle of conscious capitalism—conscious strategy—showing how companies today are competing on caring, culture, and joy. Mackey and Sisodia also tackle the challenges that conscious businesses face, including potential backlash, and they walk us through what happens when conscious businesses lose their way and how companies can recover in ways that build stakeholder trust. The authors also address the role of AI in helping companies operate in a more conscious way while also elevating performance. With new case studies and examples—and new tools and resources to help businesses transition to a more conscious model—Conscious Capitalism remains the essential authoritative resource for individuals and companies looking to build a more cooperative, humane, and positive future.

Have you ever listened to real debt collection calls from real debt collectors telling lies? I have a lot of them and here are three that show the lies and deceit. And I confront them on it. They are within this book. This book is about how to defend yourself, using transcripts from conversations I have had with debt collectors. It shows you the collection process, how the collector must proceed, and what to do if they do not. It shows how to hold conversations with them, what paperwork to file and even an example of how to respond to a lawsuit. Yes, you can do that yourself. What I want to do is show you the rules of the game and how they are applied. If you are aware and know the rules of the game, it is much easier to defend yourself.

Max''s canal boat adventure This happy dog called Max shares his adventures on a canal boat. Max meets animal friends along the way and sees varying weathers. A happy story for young children.

Are you or someone you know suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as PTSD? 2nd Edition, 2016 Military and Civilian PTSD have the same symptoms.Do you feel like no one understands what you are going, though? Maybe you are not sure if you suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). How can you tell? Do you have a loved one suffering and you don''t know how to help them? PTS / PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress / Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) once called shell shock or combat fatigue, is very common with soldiers returning from battle. The most common symptoms are flashbacks or anxieties as a result of the experiences of combat. It is now known and accepted that combat or military-related PTSD is not the only form of PTSD that people experience. PTSD is a condition that can affect anyone who has experienced overwhelming emotional stress that comes from experiencing shocking or frightening events.Victims of crime, child or spousal abuse, natural disasters, first responders, and anyone who has witnessed horrible events taking place to others can also be affected. Left untreated, the condition can bring profound depression, anger, stress anxiety, or worse, suicidal thoughts. In the United States alone, over 8 Million people have already been diagnosed with this condition - and the number is constantly rising. This condition is treatable, but everyone is unique and must receive individualized care. WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW: Make the decision to get help today! There is no shame in asking for help. Don''t tell yourself that it will go away on its own, or that you have just to keep to yourself and deal with the trauma in your way. With this book you will learn:*What are the common signs and symptoms of PTSD*The Causes of PTSD and Risk Factors*Seeking Help - What you can expect during Your consultation with the Doctor, what are some of the tests and diagnosis for PTSD*What are some treatment methods for PTSD*What to do when a loved one has PTSD*How to continue to live a productive life with PTSDIt''s been said that every journey starts with a single step. Your first step can be in reading this book. John Mackey provides valuable information, but he also provides the compassionate sensitivity of someone who has been where you are today. Act now to begin your healing!Scroll up and click the ''BUY IT NOW'' button at the top of this page so you can immediately begin reading this book!

This issue highlights the musical group Platinum Disturbia. Includes color-in page and crossword.