John Mackey

The Top Influencers Alive: 10 Breakout Influencers of 2011

Connie Dieken | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: John Mackey, Liz Strauss, Top Ten List, Howard Schultz, Oprah Winfrey, Influence, Jeff Bezos, Jim Skinner, Warren Buffett, Tim Tebow, Gabrielle Giffords, Oprah Winfrey Network, Hamdi Ulukaya, Business News

Despite conventional wisdom, influence and persuasion are not the same animal.

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Who Are Your Role Models?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Ken Block, John Mackey, Greatest Entrepreneurs, Starting a Business, Role Models, Mentors, Best Entrepreneurs, Finding a Mentor, Ellen Degeneres, Warren Buffett, HuffPost Small Business Board of Directors, Small Business News

We all have role models. The Beatles poster you had on your wall as a kid. Your prized Michael Jordan game jersey. A signed copy of The Bonfire of the...

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Home Depot Founder Knocks Obama's Business Adviser, Says Entrepreneurs Fear Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Taxes, Whole Foods, Small Business, Unemployment, Mike Whalen, President Obama, Jobs, Regulation, Economic Uncertainty, Bernie Marcus, Job Creation, Home Depot, Jeff Immelt, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Bernie Marcus, the billionaire founder and former CEO of Home Depot, is not a fan of President Obama's policies. He's also no big admire...

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Pro Football Hall Of Famer Passes Away

Posted 09.06.2011

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John Mackey, Pro Football Hall of Famer, has passed away at the age of 69. Mackey, former president of the NFL Players Association, played 10 seas...

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The Superbowl Is Over -- Now The Real Combat Begins

David Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Worker, Nfl, Superbowl, Union, Football, Pat Bowlen, John Mackey, Gabriel Feldman, Court of Appeals, Teamsters, . Nflpa, NFL Players Association, Pete Rozelle, Baltimore Colts, College Sports Network, Afl, Sports News

For thousands of workers and millions of fans, the NFL game that really counts isn't Packers v. Steelers. It's Workers v. Bosses.

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The Weekly Pulse: Michael Pollan's Rules for Thanksgiving, Plus Whole Foods' Healthcare Lies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Editor's Note: Happy Thanksgiving from the Media Consortium! This week, we aren't stopping The Audit, The Pulse, The Diaspora, or The Mulch, but we ar...

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Shannon Sharpe: The Best Blocking Tight End Ever?

Muhammad Ali Hasan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Denver Broncos, NFL Hall of Fame, Charlie Sanders, Tony Gonzalez, Shannon Sharpe, Mike Ditka, Denver News

For the last two years, fans of Shannon Sharpe, like myself, have suffered the fate of seeing our favorite football player denied entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Moby Talks Gristle

Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Animal Cruelty, The Humane Society, Whole Foods, Animal Rights, Factory Farming, Moby, Wayne Pacelle, Miyun Park, Factory Farms, 24th Genesis Awards, Gristle, Entertainment News

While many of us know Moby as a great musician, singer-songwriter and social activist, we can now add "editor" to his repertoire of how he is making a positive difference in the world.

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Creating a High Trust Organization

John Mackey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Organic Food, Health, Food, John Mackey, Health Tips, Whole Foods, Business, Health Food, Organization, Healthy Living News

As CEO of Whole Foods Market, I believe that great organizations have great purposes. The highest ideals humans aspire to should be the same ideals that our organizations have as their highest purposes.

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John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO: A Fresh Perspective

Sandy Henson Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

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CEO John Mackey and Whole Foods may not be perfect, but for me the good outweighs the bad. Whole Foods made healthy food mainstream. I know my family is healthier because of John Mackey.

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Whole Foods to Employees On Health Care: Weigh Less And You'll Pay Less

Sphere | Katie Drummond | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Whole Foods Weight Incentive, Health, Whole Foods Health Insurance, Whole Foods Weight, Whole Foods Team Member Healthy Discount Incentive, Whole Foods, Whole Foods Health Care, Health Care, Green News

Whole Foods employees who tip the scales or light up after work would be spending more for their organic broccoli than their healthier co-workers, wit...

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John Mackey: The Anti-CEO

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, JPMorgan Chase, Whole Foods, Washington Mutual, Organic Food, Ceos, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Jamie Dimon, Business News

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is clearly an odd man out in the Club of CEOs.

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Budweiser: The Beer of Climate Change Deniers?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Credo, Climate Change, Chamber of Commerce, Anheuser-Busch, Global Warming, Green News

It's time for all the lager-lovers who support low-impact living to step up to the plate -- or, rather, the bar -- to demand better from Anheuser-Busch.

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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: I Voted For Bob Barr (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whole Foods CEO, Whole Foods, Ron Paul, Bob Barr, John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO Health Care, John Mackey Health Care, Video, Politics News

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey faced a vocal backlash earlier this year when he waded into the health care debate, coming out against "ObamaCare." In a...

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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Stepping Down As Chairman

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Politics, Green, Whole Foods, John Mackey, Whole Foods Ceo Stepping Down, Whole Foods Chairman Stepping Down, Business News

PHILADELPHIA — The chief executive of organic supermarket chain Whole Foods Market Inc. is giving up his title of chairman, following years of p...

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Is Whole Foods Bad for the Planet?

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has probably brought more people to organic foods than anyone else in the United States. And many of the folks shopping at...

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Yes Men Storm Whole Foods In Manhattan

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Slideshow, Whole Foods Protest, Whole Foods, Yes Men Movie, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, New York News

After last night's showing of the new Yes Men film, a crowd of moviegoers stormed over to the Whole Foods on Houston Street and staged their own prote...

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Best CEOs Of The Decade (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Best Ceos, Google, Lloyd Blankfein, Steve Jobs, Fedex, Whole Foods, John Chambers, Dell, Slidepoll, Eric Schmidt, Michael Dell, Jamie Dimon, Fred Smith, Jim Skinner, Larry Ellison, Goldman Sachs, Xerox, Satoru Iwata, Apple, Jpmorgan, Oracle, Ceos, Cisco, McDonald's, Most Profitable Companies, Anne Mulcahy, Nintendo, Business News

The 2000s certainly seem like a ghastly decade. The era's already fabled financial debacles -- among them, Enron's bankruptcy, the burst of the tech b...

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Morgan Stanley CEO Buys $13.5 M. House

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Morgan Stanley, New York Real Estate, TARP Money, Real Estate, Paul Mellon, Sotheby's, Business News

Less than a year after Morgan Stanley got its $10 billion TARP loan (and exactly two and a half months after the money was repaid), the mammoth firm's...

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Whole Foods and Michael Pollan: Wrong to the Core

Barth Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Whole Foods, Michael Pollan, Green News

Because he's a professor, not a grocer, Michael Pollan can be forgiven for not understanding that the boycott is actually a "core" shopper revolt.

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St. Louis Tea Party Coalition Holds A Whole Foods "Buycott" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Whole Foods boycott debate -- initiated by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's Wall Street Journal health care op-ed bashing Obamacare and urging reader...

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Michael Pollan Denounces Whole Foods Boycott

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Omnivore's Dilemma Author Michael Pollan has decided to weigh in on the Whole Foods health care fight, stating he will not boycott the company. Whole...

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So You Want Health Care Reform? Boycotting Whole Foods Won't Help

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mackey, Whole Foods, Organic Food, Health Care Reform, Food, Facebook, Health Food, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Home News

A boycott of Whole Foods won't make a difference on health care, and it might actually hurt something progressives care about -- organic and natural farmers.

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Unions Join Whole Foods Boycott Fray

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two unions have now joined in the growing chorus decrying Whole Foods' CEO John Mackey and suggesting a boycott of the store. Two weeks ago, Mackey p...

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