August Turak

Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks

One Ceo's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What a highly successful, centuries-old practice can teach the corporate business world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780231160629
• ISBN-10: 0231160623
• Artikelnr.: 36964062

Autorenporträt

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 of Purpose essay contest. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Selling Magazine, the New York Times, and Business Week, and is a popular leadership contributor at Forbes.com. His website is www.augustturak.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Economic Miracle of Mepkin Abbey
2. What We All Really Want
3. The End of Selfishness
4. Goat Rodeos and the Transformational Or ga ni za tion
5. Mission
6. Selflessness and Community
7. Excellence for the Sake of Excellence
8. Ethical Standards, or, Why Good Things Happen for Good People
9. Faith
10. The Power of Trust
11. Self- knowledge and Authenticity
12. Living the Life