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Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO´s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity
August Turak
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Description for Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO´s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity
Hardback. Series: Columbia Business School Publishing. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic guest, he learned firsthand from the monks as they grew an incredibly successful portfolio of businesses. Service and selflessness are at the heart of the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition's remarkable business success. It is an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions. Combining vivid case studies from his thirty-year ... Read more
August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic guest, he learned firsthand from the monks as they grew an incredibly successful portfolio of businesses. Service and selflessness are at the heart of the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition's remarkable business success. It is an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions. Combining vivid case studies from his thirty-year ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Business School Publishing
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231160629
SKU
V9780231160629
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About August Turak
After a corporate career with companies like MTV, August Turak founded two highly successful software businesses, Raleigh Group International (RGI) and Elsinore Technologies. He received a B.A. in history from the University of Pittsburgh and is pursuing a Masters in theology at St. John's University, Minnesota. Turak's essay "Brother John" received the grand prize in the John Templeton Foundation's Power ... Read more
Reviews for Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO´s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity
I truly believe this book will improve not only your business but your life. Read it. Apply what you learn and then, in keeping with the very spirit of the book, pass it on to someone else.
Michael Keaton, actor Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks is an eye-opening read. August Turak delivers a timely, insightful message about the ... Read more
Michael Keaton, actor Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks is an eye-opening read. August Turak delivers a timely, insightful message about the ... Read more