Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks
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Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks

One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity

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Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks

One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity

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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 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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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780231535229
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Ethics
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents 
  7. Preface
  8. 1. The Economic Miracle of Mepkin Abbey
  9. 2. What We All Really Want
  10. 3. The End of Selfishness
  11. 4. Goat Rodeos and the Transformational Organization
  12. 5. Mission
  13. 6. Selflessness and Community
  14. 7. Excellence for the Sake of Excellence
  15. 8. Ethical Standards, or, Why Good Things Happen for Good People
  16. 9. Faith
  17. 10. The Power of Trust
  18. 11. Self-knowledge and Authenticity
  19. 12. Living the Life