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Finding Your Hummus
Finding Your Hummus is a metaphor for defining and actualizing personal and organizational purpose.
This book will provide you, your colleagues, family and friends with transformational insights about life and business and will unleash your personal and organizational power in a fascinating way.
• Shift happens in life and business, are you ready? This book is about leadership in times of change.
• Do you, your people and business have a guiding purpose? This book is about finding you calling.
• Do you have a personal and organizational strategy to fulfill your purpose? This book is about self awareness, self motivation and self leadership that together can achieve self fulfillment.
• How do you deal with competition, conflict and confusion? This is a book of empowering inspirational quotes that generate strength and lead to self actualization.
• What is the prime philosophy behind starting a business of growth and sustainable success?
• What is the mindset to lead a life of resilience, abundance and significance? This book is about finding your passion and discovering your purpose to live a purpose driven life.
This book will provide you, your colleagues, family and friends with transformational insights about life and business and will unleash your personal and organizational power in a fascinating way.
• Shift happens in life and business, are you ready? This book is about leadership in times of change.
• Do you, your people and business have a guiding purpose? This book is about finding you calling.
• Do you have a personal and organizational strategy to fulfill your purpose? This book is about self awareness, self motivation and self leadership that together can achieve self fulfillment.
• How do you deal with competition, conflict and confusion? This is a book of empowering inspirational quotes that generate strength and lead to self actualization.
• What is the prime philosophy behind starting a business of growth and sustainable success?
• What is the mindset to lead a life of resilience, abundance and significance? This book is about finding your passion and discovering your purpose to live a purpose driven life.
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Published April 11, 2018
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About the author
Michael Kouly
13 books12 followersMichael Kouly began his career as a Reuters war journalist. He covered armed conflicts that involved, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Hezbullah, Islamic extremists, terrorism, the United States, Kuwait, Iraq and others... He also covered musical concerts, fashion shows and car racing.
Writing about wars, geopolitics, international diplomacy, and global events offered Michael unique opportunities to witness, analyze and write about leadership at the highest levels where bad leadership meant the loss of thousands of lives and good leadership led to avoiding wars, saving lives and rebuilding shattered countries.
Michael also exercised corporate leadership over a period of 20 years as he led the growth of regional and international businesses. He is a three-time CEO and president at organizations like Reuters, Orbit and Cambridge Institute for Global Leadership, managing people in more than 20 countries.
Over the span of his career, Michael made some good decisions that generated remarkable success and also some not so good decisions that offered valuable lessons on what works and what doesn't when exercising leadership - emphasizing the mindset of "you either win or learn".
From as far back as he can remember, Michael has been fascinated by leadership. He has spent his life learning about leadership, purpose and strategy by practicing them, watching others lead and by conducting extensive research on the art and science of mobilizing people and organizations towards growth and noble purposes.
Michael is a World Bank Fellow, author and keynote speaker about leadership, strategy, purpose and international politics. He is the founder of the Kouly Institute and the creator of unique Executive Leadership Programs, that have been delivered to thousands of top business executives, NGO and government leaders worldwide.
He also dedicates time to various non-profit organizations such as the Middle East Leadership Academy (MELA), Central Eurasia Leadership Academy (CELA), South East Asia Leadership Academy (SEALA) and Leaders Across Boarders (LAB).
Michael is inspired by the writings of Victor Frankel, Abraham Maslow, Joseph Campbell, Michael Porter, Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker and many other brilliant thinkers and writers.
His purpose is to help people, organizations and countries lead purpose driven lives.
Writing about wars, geopolitics, international diplomacy, and global events offered Michael unique opportunities to witness, analyze and write about leadership at the highest levels where bad leadership meant the loss of thousands of lives and good leadership led to avoiding wars, saving lives and rebuilding shattered countries.
Michael also exercised corporate leadership over a period of 20 years as he led the growth of regional and international businesses. He is a three-time CEO and president at organizations like Reuters, Orbit and Cambridge Institute for Global Leadership, managing people in more than 20 countries.
Over the span of his career, Michael made some good decisions that generated remarkable success and also some not so good decisions that offered valuable lessons on what works and what doesn't when exercising leadership - emphasizing the mindset of "you either win or learn".
From as far back as he can remember, Michael has been fascinated by leadership. He has spent his life learning about leadership, purpose and strategy by practicing them, watching others lead and by conducting extensive research on the art and science of mobilizing people and organizations towards growth and noble purposes.
Michael is a World Bank Fellow, author and keynote speaker about leadership, strategy, purpose and international politics. He is the founder of the Kouly Institute and the creator of unique Executive Leadership Programs, that have been delivered to thousands of top business executives, NGO and government leaders worldwide.
He also dedicates time to various non-profit organizations such as the Middle East Leadership Academy (MELA), Central Eurasia Leadership Academy (CELA), South East Asia Leadership Academy (SEALA) and Leaders Across Boarders (LAB).
Michael is inspired by the writings of Victor Frankel, Abraham Maslow, Joseph Campbell, Michael Porter, Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker and many other brilliant thinkers and writers.
His purpose is to help people, organizations and countries lead purpose driven lives.
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January 11, 2018
I found this book to be very good. Not only did I find the story to be well written and a good read. But the little inspirational quotes were so nice to have sprinkled through out the story. Then as an added bonus at the end of the book the quotes are all listed with blank lines to add your own notes. Reading on the kindle this is not needed but it was great to have all the quotes in one place. This book would make a nice little gift too.
October 25, 2017
I read Finding your Hummus in one sitting, and I'm going to read it again this weekend with a pencil in hand. The problem is there's so much potentially life-changing advice inside this relatively short story that you probably won't take in half of it during the first reading. It deserves several re-reads and it deserves your time.
All of this advice is presented within a deceptively simple allegory and you can't help but connect with the characters and become invested in their struggles, all the while allowing this book to slowly change your outlook on your own life and goals, your leadership model, and your purpose. This is a book for everyone who's interested in self-growth and self-development.
Towards its end, Finding your Hummus gives you the chance to reevaluate your life goals and encourages you to work on improving them, and ultimately your outlook on life itself or even your business, through a short questionnaire. You may have already thought of the answers you give to these questions, but the magic of this book is in the act of making you write them down and in the process making them concrete.
Read this book, thank me later.
All of this advice is presented within a deceptively simple allegory and you can't help but connect with the characters and become invested in their struggles, all the while allowing this book to slowly change your outlook on your own life and goals, your leadership model, and your purpose. This is a book for everyone who's interested in self-growth and self-development.
Towards its end, Finding your Hummus gives you the chance to reevaluate your life goals and encourages you to work on improving them, and ultimately your outlook on life itself or even your business, through a short questionnaire. You may have already thought of the answers you give to these questions, but the magic of this book is in the act of making you write them down and in the process making them concrete.
Read this book, thank me later.
March 7, 2022
The writer just ripped off "Who Moved My Cheese" (a stupid book) by rewriting its main idea in a different short story.
January 5, 2018
I found this book to be really insightful, and a really enjoyable read. The use of hummus as a metaphor for purpose was really catchy. Not to mention, the characters, who I was able to relate to, I was always one of the Bests, at some point in my life.
Another thing I enjoyed was the recipe book, having all the quotes summarized in the end, with lines to write in, makes it way easier to actually reflect on them. Not just skim them, which I found helpful. That way we can really take the time and appreciate the quotes, for their depth and meaning.
I definitely look forward to finding my purpose, here is to finding my hummus.
Another thing I enjoyed was the recipe book, having all the quotes summarized in the end, with lines to write in, makes it way easier to actually reflect on them. Not just skim them, which I found helpful. That way we can really take the time and appreciate the quotes, for their depth and meaning.
I definitely look forward to finding my purpose, here is to finding my hummus.
September 6, 2020
An easy to read and digestible book. At times emotionally gripping and at times thoughtfully provocative. If you have 2 hours to spare, it's a great read!
February 25, 2021
It was a good quick book for the airplane
June 29, 2019
I met Michael on one of his motivational speeches when we were at a business trip. I didn’t think that the speech added anything to me, and I thought he’d probably be better at writing than speaking. By the end of his speech, he gave us this book and the other one “Wide Open”.
I see the point the author was trying make. However, the book was poorly written, and there were few spelling mistakes that irritated me while I was reading. I believe if I were a teenager, I would have loved it. It probably suits a different audience.
I see the point the author was trying make. However, the book was poorly written, and there were few spelling mistakes that irritated me while I was reading. I believe if I were a teenager, I would have loved it. It probably suits a different audience.
April 2, 2019
So, if you don't like to read much and get bored by reading and prefer to watch something instead of reading then this book will be different for you. You might don't want to stop once u start reading and read it you must as it will enable you to discover your self.
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