Book Review: The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt
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I’ve read two of Michael Hyatt’s recent books: Living Forward, which is about life-planning, and Your Best Year Ever, which is about achieving your most important goals. As a woman who desires to make the most of my life, I found both these books to be full of encouraging advice and helpful tips for living with excellence, direction, and focus. So when I saw Michael Hyatt had a new book, I was eager to read it.
His latest offering, The Vision Driven Leader, is designed to teach leaders the importance of vision (which he defines as “an act of seeing what the future could be, and then articulating that potential in an inspiring, clear, practical, and attractive way”), how to craft a vision statement, and how to help your team catch your vision.
In the first part of the book, he explains why having a vision matters and what we risk if we fail to have an inspiring, concrete vision of where we want to end up.
He then walks the reader step-by-step through crafting what he calls a Vision Script, which includes 4 main components: the future of your team, the future of your products, the future of your sales and marketing, and the future of your impact.
In the final section of the book, he addresses obstacles to carrying out your vision.
I’ve been following Michael Hyatt for several years, and I’ve felt that most of his materials (podcasts, blog posts, books, etc.) could be applied to people/leaders from a broad variety of backgrounds and vocations. This most recent book, however, seems to be written not for leaders in general, but for business leaders specifically and seemed to particularly apply to leaders of big organizations.
Michael Hyatt’s writing is, as always, crisp, clear, and engaging, and I definitely gleaned some helpful tips on creating and articulating my vision. But since I’m not currently nor aspiring to lead a big organization, I felt a lot of the material didn’t really apply to me.
If you run a company or are in a position of leadership with a business, I recommend this book. If you are in leadership in other areas, such as a leader in a church or school, this is probably not the best choice for a book on leadership.
If you think this a book you might be interested in, you can check it out for yourself here! And if it’s not, you might like some of Hyatt’s other books and material that are more general and oriented toward productivity and making the most of your life. As I mentioned, I really enjoyed Living Forward, and I think that’s a great (and quick) read for anyone seeking practical tools for keeping your life on track with your God-given goals and dreams.
In purpose and faith,
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