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

by Michael Hyatt

Publisher:

Baker

, 2020

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 Leaders takes you step-by-step from why to what and then how. Your business will never be the same.

Key Features

• Offers six tools to create an irresistible vision for business
• Helps leaders to rally their team around the vision
• Shows how to develop meaningful strategies to attract A-plus talent and take organizations to new and exciting places

Contents

Part 1: Vision Drives Everything

• Question 1: Are You a Leader or a Manager?
• Question 2: What Difference Does Vision Make?

Part 2: Drafting Your Vision Script

• Question 3: What Do You Want?
• Question 4: Is It Clear?
• Question 5: Does It Inspire?
• Question 6: Is It Practical?
• Question 7: Can You Sell It?

Part 3: The Challenge Ahead

• Question 8: How Should You Face Resistance?
• Question 9: Is It Too Late?
• Question 10: Are You Ready?

Top Highlights

“Always respect the past because anything that’s currently in place was established as a solution to a worse problem.’ The existing vision, mission, and strategy may be flawed, but you don’t know what they replaced, and what exists may be a lot better than what they had before you arrived.” (source)

Praise for The Vision Driven Leader

Michael Hyatt is one of the best leaders I know.

John C. Maxwell, Author, speaker, and Leadership Expert

Busyness is meaningless. What matters is consistently executing the work that actually matters. This book shows you how.

Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author, Deep Work and Digital Minimalism

Michael Hyatt has written the guide to creating freedom and money without burning ourselves out in the process.

Brooke Castillo, founder, The Life Coach School

Product Details

• Title: The Vision Driven Leader: 10 Questions to Focus Your Efforts, Energize Your Team, and Scale Your Business
• Author: Michael Hyatt
• Publisher: Baker
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Christian leadership
• ISBNs: 9781493409556, 9780801075278, 9781540901330, 1493409557, 0801075270, 1540901335
• Resource ID: LLS:9781493409556
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-20T07:49:23Z

About Michael Hyatt

Michael Hyatt is the founder and CEO of Michael Hyatt & Company, which helps leaders get the focus they need to win at work and succeed at life. Formerly chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, Michael is also the creator of the Full Focus Planner and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of several books, including Free to Focus, Living Forward, Your Best Year Ever, and Platform. His work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Businessweek, Entrepreneur, and other publications. Michael has been married to his wife, Gail, for 40 years. They have five daughters, three sons-in-law, and eight grandchildren. They live just outside Nashville, Tennessee. Learn more at MichaelHyatt.com.