From The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times, the media has chronicled Turak’s extraordinary accomplishments in business, writing, and spirituality. These excerpts reveal that all Turak’s success comes from his underlying spiritual philosophy.
February 17, 2010 August Turak: Zentrepreneur, Making Meaning and Money
September 26, 2009 Taking a Spiritual Slant on Success
John Murawski The Raleigh News and Observer
Sept 7, 2009 Business Secrets of Silent Monks Comes to Duke
May 14, 2009 From Franklinton to Forbes
Joanna Childers The Butner-Creedmoor News
April 23, 2009 Leadership Lessons from the Monastery
Steve Hamm BusinessWeek.com
April 14, 2009 Business Secrets Of The Trappists
Fred Allen Forbes.com
October 22, 2007 Letter to the Editor: Attention! Men and Women May Be Different
August Turak The Wall Street Journal
September 9, 2005 Spirituality Brings Connectedness, Profit in the Workplace
Mildred Culp WorkWise
November 29, 2004 Congratulations to the 2004 Winners of this Essay Competition
The New Yorker
November 2004 Essayists Detail Lives Filled With Purpose
Frederica Saylor Science and Theology News
September 3, 2000 How to Get Out of That Urgent Rhythm
Pat McHenry Sullivan San Francisco Examiner
July 2000 What’s Your Mission Statement?
Chuck Salter Fast Company
May 28, 2000 Pit-Stop to Riches: A Monastery
Dean Smith The New York Times
April 2, 2000 Symposium Stirs Spiritual Talk
Jennifer Chorpening The Herald Sun
November 28, 1999 Innovative Employees Win 1999 WorkWise Awards
Mildred Culp The Oakland Tribune
November 4, 1999 Five Years with a Zen Master
November 1999 The Spirit of Business
Patricia Black Business Leader Magazine
October 25, 1999 What I Don’t Miss Most
Rodney Ho The Wall Street Journal
Oct. 6, 1999 Augie Turak Featured in Nationally Syndicated WorkWise Column
October 1999 In Spirit
L.T. Entrepreneur
July 13, 1999 RGI Dines on Stakes
Christina Dryness The Raleigh News and Observer
May 24, 1999 VAR Files: Zen and the Art of Software Vending
Leighton Coleman III VAR Business
April 19, 1999 Extreme Relaxation
Hillary Scott The Wall Street Journal
March 29, 1998 What’s It All About Augie?
Geoff Edgers The Raleigh News and Observer
October 30, 1997 The Search for Meaning
Katherine Stroup The Chronicle
October 26, 1997 Play or Pray
Geoff Edgers The Raleigh News and Observer
September 1993 Life Long Lessons: One Man’s Odyssey
Thomas Forbes Selling Magazine
