Books with author Michael Truly

Michael Truly is a Dallas artist who focused on his artistic gifts from very early childhood, eventually leading to his bachelor of arts degree (University of Oklahoma, 1958) and on throughout his long career as a painter. He has worked in a variety of media in commercial art, mural painting, serigraphy, as well as teaching painting. He continued to study privately with various painters in Dallas, in most recent years with the prominent Liz Richardson. Mike’s paintings are in private collections in Dallas and other Texas cities, as well as on the West Coast, and his work has regularly appeared in the Dallas Museum of Art Staff Art Show since 2006. Just as his devotion to art has characterized Mike throughout his life, so has the playful humor that has sometimes emerged, for example, in his small whimsical copies of historic paintings, with images of himself posed in a place of the original subject (imagine the Abduction of Europa replaced by the Abduction of Michael).

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 your 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. Spread this 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 your 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. Spread this Hummus...

IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE, READ ON...Whether for an individual, a family, a business company, an organization, or a government, SURVIVAL is a challenge. This is more so in these times of increasing turbulence, uncertainty, change, competition, tension, conflict, and stress.The challenge is more significant when it comes to GROWTH because to expand your capacity and potential and to create progress; you need to capture opportunities and lead yourself and others skillfully.There can be no sustainable success and fulfillment in work, relationships and in life without exercising leadership that knows how to adapt, mobilize, solve problems, and overcome obstacles.THIS UNIQUE AND ILLUMINATING BOOK WILL OPEN YOUR EYES WIDE, SO YOU LEARN MORE ABOUT:Authority: You are surrounded by authority figures such as parents, bosses, CEOs, presidents, or governments. As you already know, not understanding how to deal with authority is risky.Enemies: Enemies are a fact of life. They could be passive or aggressive. Enemies want to undermine you and your acts of leadership. Not understanding how to deal with enemies is dangerous. Understanding Yourself and Others: It is hard to survive and grow and to lead yourself without understanding what drives your thoughts, feelings, words, actions, behaviors, dreams, and ambitions. It is impossible to lead others without understanding them first.Understanding Systems: We live and work in systems. A system can be a family, team, company, community, city, country or the world. Systems have their unique psychology and rules. Not understanding systems will put your existence and progress at risk, as you may be excluded or isolated from the group that you belong to.Leadership is a dangerous enterprise, but the rewards are valuable. This book is designed to be your companion in your thrilling journey of remarkable survival and outstanding growth.Read and Lead...

Why "Beyond Strategy"?Many people find strategy intimidating, complex, or abstract, but it doesn't have to be.This book presents a new way of thinking about strategy that is uniquely based upon the Purpose-Driven Growth Model (PDG), in which your organization's purpose and profitability is key to guiding its growth.It explores strategy concisely and thoughtfully, examining what the concept encompasses and how strategies can be constructed in a fast-changing and uncertain world.It illustrates the differences between strategies that flourish and strategies that languish, and delves into the reasons driving each outcome.It offers comprehensive thinking, and tools which view strategy holistically, emphasizing how to lead organizations towards sustainable growth and exceptional performance.The PDG Model sketches out a practical hybrid of strategy and leadership, that must be unified to fulfill organizational purpose, create growth, and deliver profits. Leadership without strategy is futile, and strategy without leadership is doomed. The two must synchronize to produce effective results.If you want to learn more about strategy and how it really (really) works, read this book. It is based on 30 years of immersion in the field of strategy, and also on scholarly work with great minds at Harvard and Princeton universities.

Some people love you and some don't. When you exercise leadership, some will support you and others will resist, oppose, obstruct, sabotage, or obsessively fight you until you lose.Most attempts at leadership fail not because of how allies are utilized, but because many leaders lack the vital skills necessary for dealing with adversaries.What will determine your leadership success is mainly your ability to handle those who stand against you.THIS BOOK IS A UNIQUE AND COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE THAT YOU CAN CONSULT EVERY TIME YOU DEAL WITH RESISTERS, OPPONENTS, OR ENEMIES.YOU WILL LEARN MORE ABOUT:Strategies: There are 104 strategies that you can use separately or in combinations as per the specific nature of the resistance that you are facing.Scenarios: There are 36 separate scenarios covering seven types of personal, social, organizational, business, and political opponents.Intensities: There are six intensities of opposition that start from passive and escalate to passive-aggressive, active, active-aggressive, malevolent, and finally archenemy.You: There is a chapter on YOU acting as your own enemy by allowing your dysfunctional mindsets, beliefs, and habits to sabotage your growth and prevent you from being all that you can be.Read this book and consult it every time you need guidance on dealing with those obstructing your attempts to create a better reality for yourself, your organization, and the people around you.

Michael Truly is a Dallas artist who focused on his artistic gifts from very early childhood, eventually leading to his bachelor of arts degree (University of Oklahoma, 1958) and on throughout his long career as a painter. He has worked in a variety of media in commercial art, mural painting, serigraphy, as well as teaching painting. He continued to study privately with various painters in Dallas, in most recent years with the prominent Liz Richardson. Mike’s paintings are in private collections in Dallas and other Texas cities, as well as on the West Coast, and his work has regularly appeared in the Dallas Museum of Art Staff Art Show since 2006. Just as his devotion to art has characterized Mike throughout his life, so has the playful humor that has sometimes emerged, for example, in his small whimsical copies of historic paintings, with images of himself posed in a place of the original subject (imagine the Abduction of Europa replaced by the Abduction of Michael).

Michael Truly is a Dallas artist who focused on his artistic gifts from very early childhood, eventually leading to his bachelor of arts degree (University of Oklahoma, 1958) and on throughout his long career as a painter. He has worked in a variety of media in commercial art, mural painting, serigraphy, as well as teaching painting. He continued to study privately with various painters in Dallas, in most recent years with the prominent Liz Richardson. Mike’s paintings are in private collections in Dallas and other Texas cities, as well as on the West Coast, and his work has regularly appeared in the Dallas Museum of Art Staff Art Show since 2006. Just as his devotion to art has characterized Mike throughout his life, so has the playful humor that has sometimes emerged, for example, in his small whimsical copies of historic paintings, with images of himself posed in a place of the original subject (imagine the Abduction of Europa replaced by the Abduction of Michael).