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Michael Hyatt

Michael Hyatt is the founder and chairman of Full Focus. He has scaled multiple companies over the years, including a $250M publishing company with 700+ employees and his own leadership development company that has grown over 60% year over year for the past 4 years. Under his leadership, Full Focus has been featured in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America for three years in a row and in 2020 the company was named to Inc.’s Best Work Places list. 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 his newest book The Vision Driven Leader. He enjoys The Double Win with his wife of 40+ years, five daughters, and nine grandchildren.

Posts by Michael Hyatt

Leadership November 3, 2008

Why Most Meetings Still Suck

As long as you have to have meetings, you might as well do them well. Before you plan another meeting (and suffer the rest of us to sit through them), make a[...]
Michael Hyatt
Leadership October 27, 2008

Leading Powerful Conversations

But I am noticing that that a new model of leadership is taking root in many organizations, including our own here at Thomas Nelson. In this model, the[...]
Michael Hyatt
Leadership October 8, 2008

Silver Bullet Thinking

In the Western literary tradition, the silver bullet was the only weapon that could destroy certain types of monsters. As a result, it became a metaphor for a[...]
Michael Hyatt
Publishing August 5, 2008

Why Obama’s Faith Matters

Today is the official pub date for The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield. I am very excited about it’s publication. Of all the books about Obama[...]
Michael Hyatt
Creating a Sense of Urgency
Leadership July 30, 2008

Creating a Sense of Urgency

Twenty years ago, Robert Wolgemuth and I started a publishing company. We had a dream to publish books that truly made a difference, in people’s lives and in[...]
Michael Hyatt
Leadership June 5, 2008

The How of WOW

You don’t have to make every experience in life a WOW. If everything is a WOW, then pretty soon, nothing is a WOW. But you must be able to identify which[...]
Michael Hyatt
Platform April 12, 2008

Twitter-dee, Twitter-dum

Twitter’s home page says it best: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of[...]
Michael Hyatt
Leadership February 20, 2008

The Importance of a Leader’s Heart

The most important thing you can do as a leader is to keep your heart open. ...Maintaining an open heart—pumping possibility through your organization—is[...]
Michael Hyatt
Miscellany January 1, 2008

So You Want to Run a Half Marathon?

Admittedly, I am a novice runner. I’ve been running just a little over a year. So what could I possibly have to say about training for a half marathon? A[...]
Michael Hyatt
Leadership September 27, 2007

Shift the Drift

Every stream has a current. Throw a twig or a piece of paper into the water, and it will drift with the current. This is natural. It is simply the way things[...]
Michael Hyatt
Publishing August 13, 2007

The Expresso Book Machine

Currently, Amazon.com has a big competitive advantage compared to brick-and-mortar bookstores. In a word, that advantage is selection. But that is about to[...]
Michael Hyatt
Productivity July 17, 2007

Finding More “Head Time”

Most of us don’t spend enough time thinking. We are so busy doing that we have, I fear, almost forgotten how to think. Yet it is our thinking, more than any[...]
Michael Hyatt
Email Etiquette 101
Productivity July 1, 2007

Email Etiquette 101

The use of e-mail in corporate culture is pervasive. I rarely get letters any more. Even phone calls are uncommon. But I get scores of e-mail messages every[...]
Michael Hyatt
Productivity June 25, 2007

Upgrading My Standard Messages

I thought it was about time to overhaul my standard voice mail greetings. I’ve been following the same procedure for several years. I generally update my[...]
Michael Hyatt
Breaking E-mail Addiction
Productivity June 19, 2007

Breaking E-mail Addiction

I am reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. He’s only 29-years old, but is wise beyond his years. This is probably the best book I have read on[...]
Michael Hyatt
Taking a Stand
Leadership May 8, 2007

Taking a Stand

There are probably as many different philosophies of creating an annual budget as there are companies. When I came to Thomas Nelson initially, the philosophy[...]
Michael Hyatt