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The Double Win

4 Essential Documents for Leading Your Business

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Education, Productivity, Influence, Teamleadership, Self-improvement, Selfdevelopment, Achievement, Business, Intentionality, Management, Personaldevelopment, Selfleadership, Leadership

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As a leader, you know vision is important. But what on earth is it? There are many conflicting voices on the subject. It’s enough to make you forget the whole thing and just focus on operations. Why is this so hard? We’ve been refining these concepts for decades. And we’ve distilled them into four distinct documents that form the foundation for any successful business. Forget what you’ve heard before. Adopt this simple system, and you’ll escape the fog of vague ideas and definitions. You’ll gain instant clarity on the kind of company you want to be, and how to make it happen. In this episode, you’ll discover— Strategies for translating your directional ideas into clear documentation. The differences between vision scripts, mission statements, and other similar documents. How to identify where you’re going as a business, and how you’re going to get there. Tips on articulating your organization’s “why.” Ideas for dialing in exactly who you are serving. How to identify your boundaries so you know how to play the game well. Suggestions for how to learn from the past and use that knowledge to build a better future. This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you the Wall-Street Journal best-seller, The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt. Get your copy online today, and claim your free bonuses today at www.visiondrivenleader.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by the Wall Street Journal bestseller,

0:04.7

The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt.

0:07.1

Get your copy online and claim your free bonuses today at visiondriven Leader.com. Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt.

0:17.0

And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller.

0:19.0

And this is Lead to Win, our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life.

0:24.0

Today we're going to clear up some confusion a lot of business leaders feel

0:28.0

around vision, mission, and strategy.

0:31.0

Yeah, you know, this gets really confusing.

0:37.0

We've been talking a lot about Vision right now because of Dad, your new book, The Vision Driven

0:41.1

Leader.

0:42.1

And while everybody agrees that Vision is a good thing,

0:44.8

it can be really hard to define.

0:47.4

In fact, there's a whole list of related terms out there,

0:50.1

like mission statement and core values

0:52.2

and guiding principles and strategy documents and vision statements.

0:55.8

Nobody seems to agree on exactly what the term means, so no wonder we're confused.

1:00.9

So if you're confused about all this right now, we've got help for you.

1:05.0

Today we're going to be solving this problem of trying to understand these terms and

1:09.1

how they relate to your business. We're going to tell you about four documents you need to guide a

1:14.3

healthy business, but before we do that we got to bring Larry in. Hey Larry.

1:18.7

Hey Michael, hi Megan. Hey Larry. As I was thinking about this topic for today,

1:23.9

you know, we have seen a lot of trends in business

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