Out of Office

Can Business Have a Heart?

When Best Buy announced that it hired Hubert Joly to turn around the struggling consumer electronics retailer in 2012, the stock tanked as investors questioned why the company would hire a Frenchman with no experience in big-box retailing. But Joly proved to be up to the turnaround task, winning over employees, customers and shareholders with a strategy that fended off competition from Amazon and pushed Best Buy into new areas like healthcare. Now, he’s teaching the next generation of corporate leaders how to put people at the center of their business, and radically rethink how we view work.   Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Join us for unconventional conversations about life and leadership in Out of Office, hosted by Mallika Kapur. Tune in to hear newsmakers talk about things they don't get asked about in the office. Their childhood. Dreams. Mentors. Favorite books. Failure. Triumphs. Down time. Family and love. Because all these influences make them who they are and define how they lead.