By Melissa Hawks on June 4, 2013
In this video, August Turak Unplugged, Turak candidly speaks about his first book: Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity (Columbia Business School Publishing; July 2013). He shares a behind the scenes look at why he first went to Mepkin Abbey back in 1996.
Posted in Book, Featured, Top, Transformational Organizations, Video | Tagged Book, Business Secrets, Columbia Business School Publishing, Leadership, Mepkin Abbey, Organizational Transformation, Personal Transformation, Video
By Melissa Hawks on June 3, 2013
The first review of Turak’s book, Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity, from SUCCESS magazine appears in the print edition and on the website. Thanks to all of you for helping to “spread the word.”
Posted in Personal Transformation | Tagged Authenticity, book review, Business Secrets, Lessons, Meaning, SUCCESS Magazine, SUCCESS.com, Transformation, Trappist Monks
By Melissa Hawks on May 15, 2013
August Turak recently wrote an exclusive article, The House the Rabbi Built which was recently featured in NCSU’s The Student Publication – Form+Fiction: The Role of Design and Designers in Shaping, Framing, and Reflecting Reality.
Posted in Career Success
By Melissa Hawks on April 18, 2013
August Turak was recently interviewed by Stephen Lahey on the SmallBusinessTalent.com® podcast on business/personal transformation. The SmallBusinessTalent.com podcast provides you with fresh sales and marketing ideas from real-world experts — people with years of hands-on experience building healthy businesses with strong sales and marketing results.
Posted in Audio, Featured, Personal Transformation, Top | Tagged Audio, Business Transformation, Leadership Lessons, Marketing, Personal Transformation, Podcast, Sales Success, SmallBusinessTalent.com, Stephen Lahey
By Melissa Hawks on March 13, 2013
Whether it is in business, leadership, or our personal lives, the most important things we must learn cannot be “taught” to us. Instead they must “come to us,” sometimes in a flash of realization, and this experience is often described as a feeling of “waking up.”
Posted in Personal Transformation | Tagged IBM Executive School, Leadership, Louis R. Mobley, Matrix, Morpheus, Nietzsche, Socrates, Star Wars, Wake Up, Yoda
By August Turak on December 13, 2012
In this private letter to a friend; the branding guru: Dean Crutchfield, August Turak explains who he is and what he is teaching.
Posted in Ask Turak, Personal Transformation | Tagged Beauty, Belief, Chaos, Consciousness, Desire, Evolution of Thinking, Fear, God, Ignorance, Illusion, Mortality, Paradigm, Paradox, Personal Tribulations, Pigeonholing, Problem of Life, Reality, Security, Spirituality, Spirituality as Unnatural, Splinter In The Mind, Success, The Matrix, The Truman Show, Thinking, Truth, Wisdom, Zen
By Melissa Hawks on December 2, 2012
Though it has been more than 25 years, the leadership lessons I learned from Jim Collins remain pivotal to my life. Ordinarily, as Huck Finn might say, I don’t take much stock in “tips.” Human beings prefer the concrete to the abstract… However, there are exceptions to every rule, and Collins passed on a number of highly practical tips that I feel no qualms about passing on to you.
Posted in Career Success | Tagged A&E Networks, Business Success, Jim Collins, Leadership, Leadership Lessons, Success
By admin on November 15, 2012
The crowd was on the edge of their seats as Turak took them on a wild, wonderful ride sharing his experiences in his search for the meaning of life as a young man. In the spirit of service and selflessness and giving back to our community, we offer you; our viewers, the opportunity to watch for yourself in our latest video.
Posted in Personal Transformation, Video | Tagged Duke University, Events, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Video, Zen
By Melissa Hawks on November 1, 2012
The four dirty little secrets behind income inequality that no one is talking about… recognizing the real source of income inequality and poverty in America.
Posted in Transcending Capitalism | Tagged American Dream, Brookings Institution, Communism, Joseph Stiglitz, Leadership, Pew Research Center, Stiglitz, Transcending Capitalism, Wall Street Journal
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