America is facing a pandemic unrelated to COVID. It is a mental health crisis. 40 percent of incoming freshmen at our elite universities are already on anti-depressants. Depressed and alienated young men are increasingly eschewing college, marriage, and gainful employment in favor of living in their parent’s basements smoking weed, watching porn, playing video games, […]
Author: August Turak
The Red-Hot Heart of Leadership
The one key trait that all leaders share is their absolute commitment to what they are doing, why they are doing it, and to the people helping them get there. In 1985 I became the vice president of marketing for a privately held, family run, cable television operator that owned 20 cable systems across several […]
What Every Leader Must Know About Personal Development
Man is a mystery. If you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out do not say that you’ve wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man. Fyodor Dostoevsky Columbia Business School recently published my book Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for […]