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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
October 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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