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Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity (Columbia Business School Publishing)

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August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning writer 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 on the heart of the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition’s remarkable business success. It’s an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism at the same time as 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 also be successfully applied to plenty of secular business settings and to our personal lives as well. He demonstrates that monks and people like Warren Buffett are wildly successful not in spite of their high principles but on account of them. Turak also introduces other “transformational organizations” that share the the most important monastic business strategies so crucial for success.

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