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By Melissa Hawks on February 17, 2012
Your work profoundly moves me. In fact, it has motivated me to try and guest work at a Trappist monastery next year as you did. Thanks for putting such good idea out there!
Posted in Ask Turak, Personal Transformation | Tagged Ask Turak, Austin TX, Business Secrets of the Trappists, Correspondence, Educational System, Forbes, Geoff Colvin, Motivation, Ryan McElroy, Thunderbird Coffee
By Melissa Hawks on May 30, 2011
…is probably the best CEO I’ve ever known, and his mantra is that success relies on the courage to “face facts.” He constantly challenges his number crunchers to come up with data that prove him wrong rather than right. Facing facts means “putting things in perspective” and “getting some distance.” When we become identified or “attached” to a business plan, product line, sales model, or pricing strategy this is exactly what we fail to do….
Posted in Career Success, Featured | Tagged Business, Business plan, Business Secrets of the Trappists, CEO, Charlie Sheen, Colorado, Dan Turak, Detachment, Ego, Jamie Turak, Jim Collins, Leadership Lessons, Mepkin Abbey, Monks, Perspective, Small Business, Tom Turak, Trappists, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal, WSJ
By August Turak on March 8, 2010
I think the apparent contradiction between altruism and competition is just that—only apparent. Treat your employees and customers like you would like to be treated and [...]
Posted in Transcending Capitalism | Tagged Alcoholics Anonymous, Altruism, Business, Business Secrets of the Trappists, Commitment, Competition, Integrity, Marines, Merging Business & Spirituality, Monks, Profit, Service and selflessness, Trust, Warren Buffet
By August Turak on February 28, 2010
August – Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and philosophy. An observation: have you ever considered that a huge factor in your life has been that you did not marry and have children? You could have had exactly the same convictions and guiding spirit, but gotten thrown off the path if you [...]
Posted in Career Success | Tagged Action, Arete, Business Secrets of the Trappists, Character, Character Formation, Duke Chapel, Education, Faith, Feeling, Louis Mobley, Marriage, Morality, Path, Post Modern Relativism, Rationalization, Risk, Socrates, Teachers, Thinking, Tied down with Family/Career, Virtue
By August Turak on February 28, 2010
Despite many surface differences the monastic model can be applied to our secular organizations with the same [...]
Posted in Transcending Capitalism | Tagged Aiming Past the Target, Alcoholics Anonymous, Berkshire Hathaway, Branding, Business, Business Secrets of the Trappists, Commitment, Competition, Francis Fukayama, Genessee, In Search of Excellence, Mepkin Abbey, Merging Business & Spirituality, Monks, Passion, Rationalization, Service and selflessness, Snowball, The Great Disruption, Tom Peters, Trust, Warren Buffet
By August Turak on January 28, 2010
Louis R. Mobley, my mentor and founder of the IBM Executive School, said that in any “free exchange” – economic or not – both parties should walk away with [...]
Posted in Transcending Capitalism | Tagged Adam Smith, Altruism, Business Secrets of the Trappists, Capitalism, Commitment, Ethics, Gardening, Greed, IBM Executive School, Louis Mobley, Materialism, Mepkin Abbey, Mercantilism, Monks, Profit, Selfishness, Selflessness, Socialism, Transcending Capitalism, Transformation, Warren Buffet, Winston Churchill
By August Turak on May 28, 2009
Why do the monks have an unpaid workforce in the first place? Because they inspire people to work for room and board. The unpaid workforce is not a “given,” it is [...]
Posted in Transformational Organizations | Tagged Business, Business Secrets of the Trappists, Inspiration, Mepkin Abbey, Mission, Monks
