The Vision Driven Leader: 10 Questions to Focus Your Efforts, Energize Your Team, and Scale Your Business

by Michael Hyatt

Overview

Having a clear, compelling vision—and getting buy-in from your team—is essential to effective leadership. If you don't know where you're going, how on earth will you get there? But how do you craft that vision? How do you get others on board? And how do you put that vision into practice at every level of your organization?

In The Vision Driven Leader, New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt offers six tools for crafting an irresistible vision for your business, rallying your team around the vision, and distilling it into actionable plans that drive results. Based on Michael's 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive, backed by insights from organizational science and psychology, and illustrated by case studies and stories from multiple industries, The Vision Driven Leader takes you step-by-step from why to what and then how. Your business will never be the same.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801075278
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/31/2020
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	125,999
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Michael Hyatt is the chief executive officer and founder of Michael Hyatt & Company. He has scaled multiple companies over the years, including a $250M publishing company with 700-plus employees and his own leadership development company that has grown over 60% year over year for the past four years. Under his leadership, Michael Hyatt & Company has been featured in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America for three years in a row. He is also the author of several New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling books, including Platform, Living Forward, Your Best Year Ever, Free to Focus, and The Vision Driven Leader. He's living The Double Win with his wife of forty-plus years, five daughters, and nine grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Vision Drives Everything

Question 1 Are You a Leader or a Manager? 15

The Cost of Confusion

Question 2 What Difference Does Vision Make? 33

The Pitfalls of Vision-Deficit Leaders

Part 2 Drafting Your Vision Script

Question 3 What Do You Want? 57

Direction Begins with Desire

Question 4 Is It Clear? 81

Make It Concrete and Explicit

Question 5 Does It Inspire? 95

Moved People Move People

Question 6 Is It Practical? 111

Understanding Strategy and Hiring

Question 7 Can You Sell It? 135

Enrolling Your Team

Part 3 The Challenge Ahead

Question 8 How Should You Face Resistance? 159

Dealing with Obstacles

Question 9 Is It Too Late? 183

The Power of the Vision Zag

Question 10 Are You Ready? 209

Preparing for the Journey Ahead

Notes 219

Thanks 237

Index 241