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

"New York Times bestselling author and America's leadership mentor offers leaders six tools for crafting an irresistible vision for their business, rallying their team around the vision, and distilling it into actionable plans that drive results"--

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.

Praise for Michael Hyatt and His Previous Books

Free to Focus

"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

Your Best Year Ever

"A simple program, backed by the best modern research, to reach your dreams!"
-- TONY ROBBINS, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Unshakeable

"Michael Hyatt has created a fun, fast way to find your dreams and then turn them into reality."
-- SETH GODIN, author, Linchpin

Living Forward (coauthored with Daniel Harkavy)

"Full of reminders and revelation that will open up your mind and organize your time."
-- DAVE RAMSEY, New York Times bestselling author, The Total Money Makeover

"A fully customizable blueprint to achieve the design and execution of the life you want to live."
-- CHALENE JOHNSON, New York Times bestselling author; CEO, Team Johnson

Michael Hyatt is the founder and CEO of Michael Hyatt & Company, a leadership development firm specializing in transformative live events, workshops, and digital and physical planning tools. Formerly chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, Michael is also a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of several books, including 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.

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.