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From The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times, the media has chronicled Turak’s extraordinary accomplishments in business and writing. These excerpts reveal that all Turak’s personal and business success stems from the core principle of service and selflessness.

November 10, 2010 Lessons From ‘Mad Men’: Sales Tips From Don Draper
August Turak Forbes.com

October 19, 2010 What Bolsters the Bottom Line?

August Turak Advertising Age

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 30, 2009 L’Europa dalla persona all’individuo
Giuseppe Di Leo Il Consulente RE

April 25, 2009 Quelli dell’Ora et labora: La formula del successo economico e nella regola monastico
Mattia Ferraresi Il Foglio

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 August 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 August?
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

November 18, 1996 Zen and the Art of Selling, Software, or Searching the Spirit
Jim Wise The Herald-Sun

September 1993 Life Long Lessons: One Man’s Odyssey
Thomas Forbes Selling Magazine

August 29, 1988 Corporate Success May Hide in Eastern Religion
Dick Kimmins

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