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Chargement... Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity (Columbia Business School Publishing)par August Turak
![]() Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Turak gained business secrets from a most unique source: Trappist monks. Living and working along these monks allowed Turak to gain the previously unknown business secrets that allowed them to develop a successful business portfolio. Using personal stories and descriptions of his business accomplishments, Turak makes a connection with his readers. A great book full of important lessons and messages! You don’t have to be business-minded to appreciate the great arguments that August makes in his book. He takes some of the most intuitive principles, developed by the Trappist Monks as effective strategies for business success, and highlights the intuition and the intelligence behind a business strategy that still has validity in today’s world. The depth and breadth of Turak’s research is viewed throughout the entirety of this book as he makes comparisons between simplistic and complex business strategies. What does it mean to really transform your way of thought? What is the ideal model? Turak inspires his readers with his brilliant ideas, eloquently presented in a manner that will keep you reading while your brain is trying to keep up with his genius. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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So what is it exactly that Turak has learned from the monks? The content of this book is not significantly different from any other business self-help book. Turak attributes the monk’s success to: their commitment to quality, their commitment to community, their selfless service, loyalty, the opportunity their life together makes for personal transformation, integrity and their commitment to a higher purpose. Because Turak is writing for the widest possible audience, his appropriation of the monk’s insights are applied far beyond their particular Christian, monastic commitment. He wants to help business people translate monastic style commitment to their organizations.
What makes this book a fun read is Turak’s blend of monastery stories with stories of his own business success and challenges. His spiritual commitments (and personal commitments to running the SKS) has often meant that he has had to forgo opportunities. However these commitments served to pave the way to the particular shape of his success. Hearing his story is part of the fun and of course he makes you wish you knew a bunch of Trappist monks. The Trappist’s Benedictine heritage ensures their commitment to the sacredness of work, as one component of the spiritual life. So it seems natural that Turak can appropriate their insights and experience to the workplace.
I enjoyed this book but I am not sure what I will take from it. Secularizing the insights from the monastery means reducing the spiritual insights and religious commitments of the monks into something useful for everyone. There is something good about this, but it is also part of the ‘spiritual but not religious’ lowest-common-denominator impulse. The monks have a vocation. So do business people. They can learn from each other, but their distinctive call is their greatest gift to the world. I think Turak gets this, but when he talks about getting business’s to commit to their organization’s purpose, this will always be a different order of commitment to me than a Trappists commitment to God, community and prayer. The former may be worthwhile, but is temporal. the Godward life connects us to the Transcendent. I would have difficulty committing to my current organization (in the business world) with the same tenacity that monks devote themselves to God. I don’t think I should, even while I agree that commitment to a common purpose will lead to greater corporate success (in general).
I give this book four stars and think that if you like quasi-spiritual business books, you likely will love this one. I liked it. ;)
Thank you to Speakeasy for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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