LEADER 03467nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910809204703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-53522-8 024 7 $a10.7312/tura16062 035 $a(CKB)2670000000358525 035 $a(EBL)1103467 035 $a(OCoLC)845249122 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000889751 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11476406 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000889751 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10882325 035 $a(PQKB)11532315 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000129940 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1103467 035 $a(DE-B1597)459398 035 $a(OCoLC)979742458 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231535229 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1103467 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10716957 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL562759 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000358525 100 $a20130131d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe business secrets of the Trappist monks $eone CEO's quest for meaning and authenticity /$fAugust Turak 210 $aNew York $cColumbia Business School Publishing$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 0 $aColumbia Business School Publishing 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-16063-1 311 $a0-231-16062-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1. The Economic Miracle of Mepkin Abbey -- $t2. What We All Really Want -- $t3. The End of Selfishness -- $t4. Goat Rodeos and the Transformational Organization -- $t5. Mission -- $t6. Selflessness and Community -- $t7. Excellence for the Sake of Excellence -- $t8. Ethical Standards, or, Why Good Things Happen for Good People -- $t9. Faith -- $t10. The Power of Trust -- $t11. Self-knowledge and Authenticity -- $t12. Living the Life 330 $aAugust 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. 606 $aBusiness ethics$zUnited States 606 $aSuccess in business$zUnited States 615 0$aBusiness ethics 615 0$aSuccess in business 676 $a174/.4 700 $aTurak$b August$01596542 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809204703321 996 $aThe business secrets of the Trappist monks$93917934 997 $aUNINA