558: How to Escape Non-Stop Urgency and Become Visionary with Michael Hyatt
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
New York Times bestselling author and leadership mentor Michael Hyatt shares what it really takes to become a vision-driven leader.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Why anyone can be a vision-driven leader.
2) The 4 key components of a good vision script.
3) How to turn your vision into action.
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— ABOUT MICHAEL —
Michael Hyatt is the founder and CEO of Michael Hyatt & Company, a leadership coaching and development firm twice listed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies. A longtime publishing executive, Michael is the former chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson, now part of HarperCollins. He is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of several books, including Your Best Year Ever, Living Forward, and Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World.
Michael is the creator of the Full Focus Planner, which combines quarterly goal-tracking and daily productivity in a proven system for personal and professional achievement. His blog and weekly podcast, Lead to Win, are go-to resources for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs, executives, and aspiring leaders. He has been featured by Forbes, Inc, Entrepreneur, Fast Company and Wall Street Journal. Michael and his wife of 40 years, Gail live just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.
• Book: Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
• Book Website: VisionDrivenLeader.com/awesome
• Website: MichaelHyatt.com
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• Book: "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" by Jason Fried
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• Book: “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield
• Book: "Visioneering: God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Vision" by Andy Stanley
• Company: Thomas Nelson
• Personality: Andy Stanley
• Principle: Pareto Principle
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 558 |
| 0:22.1 | with Michael Hyattatt sharing how to escape |
| 0:24.6 | non-stop urgency and become a visionary. I hope you're doing well if you're still |
| 0:28.6 | working from home you are finding a good groove and Michael's got some pro tips on getting into that |
| 0:35.6 | groove with a clear vision for yourself and your teams. Y'all earned one why |
| 0:40.0 | anyone can be a vision-driven leader, two, the four key components of a good vision |
| 0:44.9 | script, and three, how to turn your vision into action. |
| 0:48.9 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Islands we reference, |
| 0:51.8 | you can expand your episode |
| 0:53.4 | notes or show description in your podcast at player or visit awesome at your job |
| 0:57.4 | dot com slash Epp 558 and by the way if you'd like the wisdom from Michael and every guest who's gone before him |
| 1:05.2 | in a quick digestible email as each new episode comes out and access to the archive the vault of all. |
| 1:13.3 | We call those the gold nuggets. |
| 1:14.7 | Haven't mentioned those on the show lately, |
| 1:16.3 | but they're front center on the website, |
| 1:18.0 | awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:19.8 | And you might want those emails. |
| 1:22.0 | May access to all 558 nuggets of wisdom. |
| 1:26.8 | You can read them in about two or three minutes. |
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