Description: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity, Paperback by Turak, August, ISBN 0231160631, ISBN-13 9780231160636, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 traditions 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 business career with intimate portraits of the monks at work, Turak shows how Trappist principles can be successfully applied to a variety of secular business settings and to our personal lives as well. He demonstrates that monks and people like Warren Buffett are wildly successful not despite their high principles but because of them. Turak also introduces other "transformational organizations" that share the crucial monastic business strategies so critical for success.
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Book Title: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One CEO's Quest for Mean
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Name: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One Ceo's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Personal Success, Organizational Behavior, Business Ethics, Religious, Management
Item Weight: 10.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Author: August Turak
Item Width: 8.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
