Business secrets of the Trappist monks : (Record no. 27069)
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International Standard Book Number | 9780231160636 |
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Call number | 174/.4 |
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR | |
Authors | Turak, August |
TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Business secrets of the Trappist monks : |
Subtitle | one CEO's quest for meaning and authenticity / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. | August Turak |
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | New York : |
Publisher | Columbia Business School Pub., |
Date | c2013. |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | xvi, 182 p. ; |
Size | 23 cm. |
SUMMARY | |
Summary | August Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to living and working alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey for seventeen years. As a frequent monastic guest, he learned firsthand from the monks as they grew an incredibly successful portfolio of businesses. Service and selflessness are at the heart of the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition's remarkable business success. It is an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions. Combining vivid case studies from his thirty-year business career with intimate portraits of the monks at work, Turak shows how Trappist principles can be successfully applied to a variety of secular business settings and to our personal lives as well. He demonstrates that monks and people like Warren Buffett are wildly successful not despite their high principles but because of them. Turak also introduces other "transformational organizations" that share the crucial monastic business strategies so critical for success. |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Heading | Business ethics |
Form | United States |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Heading | Success in business |
Form | United States |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Heading | Entrepreneurship |
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Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://uowd.box.com/s/j52xtkj74oxaztnlchcm8kl3lvdw5qnz">https://uowd.box.com/s/j52xtkj74oxaztnlchcm8kl3lvdw5qnz</a> |
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Date last seen | Full call number | Barcode | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Withdrawn status | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition |
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26/01/2017 | 174.4 TU BU | T0018146 | 15.45 | 26/01/2017 | REGULAR | Dewey Decimal Classification | University of Wollongong in Dubai | University of Wollongong in Dubai | Main Collection | 01/07/2015 | AMAUS |