Meaning, Purpose, and the Transformational Organization. Discover the 1500-Year-Old Monastic Secrets to Business Success.

August Turak’s Business Secrets of the Trappists on Forbes.com was the web site’s most highly rated article for almost two weeks. Drawing on his 12-year relationship with the monks of Mepkin Abbey, Turak offers a radical alternative, based on a 1500-year-old monastic tradition, to the worldwide economic crisis.

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Business Secrets of the Trappists: A 1,500 Year-Old Management Paradigm

In the sixth century, near Rome, the monk Benedetto framed rules for a community dedicated to serving the common good through selfless individual effort. His organizational canon was championed throughout medieval Europe by the emperor Charlemagne and became Western Christianity’s model for monastic life. It introduced ideals of ethics, trust, and democratic order and recognized nobility in the simplest labor. In this compelling article, August Turak conveys critical business benefits inspired by his experiences at a Trappist monastery that thrives, spiritually and commercially – as have similar monasteries for 1,500 years- abiding by the Rule of St. Benedict.

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Sorting Eggs at Mepkin Abbey: What Corporate America Can Learn

Whatever his mien – entrepreneur, theologian, teacher, raconteur – August Turak bears witness to the ultimate transformative adventure: the heroic journey of everyday life. Drawing on 35 years of business experience and 12 years at a Trappist monastery, Turak may well produce a sea-change in American corporate culture. As Blake saw a world in a grain of sand, Turak tasks us to hone our perception, eschew ego and aspire to the adventure that only the highest missions provide. By design bold and audacious, his teaching resonates whether one is running a corporate enterprise or sorting eggs at a monastery, and CEOs are tuning in. In these times of economic soul-searching, meaning matters and Turak is redefining the very meaning of prosperity.

Skyhooks

It is one of the most persistent questions of modern life: What are we working so hard for? In 1955 the Harvard Business Review published an article by Oliver Arthur Ohmann, then assistant to the president of Standard Oil Co. Skyhooks is regarded as one of the most eloquent and brilliantly rendered essays on the struggle to reconcile the hunger for meaning in both our lives and our livelihoods. A timeless exegesis of a fundamental human conundrum, Skyhooks boldly asserts that transformation – “what happens to people in the course of producing” – is the little corner of heaven we seek.

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Source: Harvard Business Review

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