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  • Written by: August Turak
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  • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and consultant, for the last 16 years August Turak worked alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, watching firsthand as they undertook new enterprises and sustained an incredibly successful business practice.

Service and selflessness are at the heart of this 1,500-year-old monastic tradition’s remarkable business success, 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 the lessons he's learned from 30 years of business experience with intimate portraits of the monks at work, Turak shows how Trappist principles have been successfully applied in a variety of business settings. He demonstrates how the monks and such agnostics as Warren Buffett are wildly successful not despite their fanatical commitment to the highest principles but because of them. Turak also points to other transformational organizations that share critical components of the abbey’s philosophy conducive to success.
©2013 August Turak (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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This book hit me hard and I can't get over it.

I am not new to the practice of prayer and service and transforming prayer into work and work into prayer. This book came up when I was searching for a self help book like one of those written by Malcolm Gladwell. It caught my interest so I bought it in Audible. I enjoyed every part of this book. I would admit that this book made me examine every aspect of my life. It really went beyond my expectation and I wanted more but this is the only book written by August Turak so I just have to keep repeating it because it is simply so good.

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