A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO who evolves from a pro | dG1fcVBrUUN2Nkk1Wmc
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00:00I was a toxic CEO.
00:02Big business cares more about Wall Street than you and your family.
00:07I'm the boss. You work for me. I know what's best.
00:12Our pay went up 6% while the CEOs gave themselves 40% pay increases.
00:16Profits over people.
00:18And the executives running those 20 troubled banks still received enormous paychecks.
00:24Nothing is my fault, and I'm entitled to it all.
00:28Corporations are driven by profits.
00:32They don't care about the land, the water, the people, the richness of life.
00:36What if all corporate CEOs acted like this?
00:39Well, too many do.
00:44Climate change, poison in the food chain, social economic injustice.
00:49Unless there's a drastic shift in the corporate world, so be it.
00:54The human species was an interesting experiment in evolution that didn't work.
01:01I'm imploring the leaders of corporate America to own their part in having a healthy society.
01:11Tom Gygax, the co-founder of the Nine State Tires Plus chain, developed a revolutionary work concept.
01:18Tom was a pioneer, bringing spirituality, self-awareness, art consciousness into the business world.
01:25He achieved this sort of legendary status, Feng Shui-ing tire stores,
01:29taking this sort of grease monkey business and elevated it to a level of Zen consciousness.
01:35Then he went on to become a coach and a mentor and an advisor to really try to take some of the same principles
01:40that had helped him succeed and multiply a tenfold back to the world.
01:45We need CEOs who are going to bring that in if we're going to have a society that works.
01:49It's not beyond our reach to get back in balance.
01:52Unless there's a critical mass of people who personally change and take the responsibility
01:57to encourage that change in their businesses as Tom did, then we are simply going to extinction.
02:04We need to share the message that we can stop the toxic greed suffocating our quality of life,
02:10ruining our country and the health of our planet.
02:14The change is within us all.