Contemplative Commerce

Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks

Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks

One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity

August Turak

Columbia Business School Publishing

The motto of Benedictine spirituality isora et labora — a deceptively simple Latin phrase that means “to pray and to work.” A variation of it,ora est labora, means “to prayis to work” — a sentiment handily embodied in the Latin words, whereora is actually part oflabora. Prayer and work: the heart of Benedictine spirituality, and...