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Leading Giants: A Leader's Guide to Maximum Influence
No matter your position or industry,
Leading Giants
offers proven strategies that will rapidly expand your influence to get you the results you want.
It is clear that leaders carry a unique burden. They are guardians, protectors, providers, judges, helpers, servants, counselors, and friends—and only a Giant can be all those at one time. Leaders live and die with the actual results they create, and those results are created with and through the people they lead.
Dave Durand spent 35 years founding, leading, and selling companies with more than a billion dollars in combined sales. Having led hundreds of thousands of people, he distills leadership influence in usable terms. Leading Giants illuminates the Four Superpowers of a Leader, how to rapidly expand your influence, and that in order to succeed, strangely, you have to “think like a criminal.”
In addition to building greatness in yourself, your team, and your organization, Leading Giants will help
Become a Giant—someone who has unlocked their maximum potential in business and in life Inspire great results in those around you—creating profit and long-term wealth for your business Attract and retain incredible talent (other Giants)—keeping all the best players on your team WIN against your competitors
By learning to serve as a firm but compassionate leader in the face of challenges, you will do the right things, the right way, and reap the benefits. Because life and business are full of good people engaging in destructive behavior, influencing people away from vice and into virtue is the key to peace, prosperity, and profits.
Filled with personal stories from Durand’s decades of founding, leading, scaling, and selling businesses, plus actionable lessons readers can use to increase the impact of their leadership, Leading Giants offers a fresh and empowering perspective, helping readers set their sights on true success and providing them a practical guide for the journey.
If you want success, extraordinary results, and a winning culture, Leading Giants will show you how.
It is clear that leaders carry a unique burden. They are guardians, protectors, providers, judges, helpers, servants, counselors, and friends—and only a Giant can be all those at one time. Leaders live and die with the actual results they create, and those results are created with and through the people they lead.
Dave Durand spent 35 years founding, leading, and selling companies with more than a billion dollars in combined sales. Having led hundreds of thousands of people, he distills leadership influence in usable terms. Leading Giants illuminates the Four Superpowers of a Leader, how to rapidly expand your influence, and that in order to succeed, strangely, you have to “think like a criminal.”
In addition to building greatness in yourself, your team, and your organization, Leading Giants will help
Become a Giant—someone who has unlocked their maximum potential in business and in life Inspire great results in those around you—creating profit and long-term wealth for your business Attract and retain incredible talent (other Giants)—keeping all the best players on your team WIN against your competitors
By learning to serve as a firm but compassionate leader in the face of challenges, you will do the right things, the right way, and reap the benefits. Because life and business are full of good people engaging in destructive behavior, influencing people away from vice and into virtue is the key to peace, prosperity, and profits.
Filled with personal stories from Durand’s decades of founding, leading, scaling, and selling businesses, plus actionable lessons readers can use to increase the impact of their leadership, Leading Giants offers a fresh and empowering perspective, helping readers set their sights on true success and providing them a practical guide for the journey.
If you want success, extraordinary results, and a winning culture, Leading Giants will show you how.
272 pages, Hardcover
Published February 4, 2025
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February 24, 2025
Being a library director, I like reading/listening to books about leadership. This book had quite a few good nuggets of information.
Here are a few of my favorite bits of wisdom:
All leaders carry a unique burden. They are guardians, protectors, providers, judges, helpers, servants, counselors and friends.
…undoing bad habits is sometimes as important as building new habits
Will this make me the best version of myself or a worse version?
Setting order in your life by way of routine has a dramatically generalizing impact. When you set a specific time each day for exercise, study, prayer or the like. You begin fortifying the characteristics that ground you when tempted.
Just say less more often.
Biting your tongue. You should only speak if you have something to add. So, say less more often.
Delegate things that can easily be done by someone else.
Action is required to get results.
We use one task as an excuse for not doing another one.
Here are a few of my favorite bits of wisdom:
All leaders carry a unique burden. They are guardians, protectors, providers, judges, helpers, servants, counselors and friends.
…undoing bad habits is sometimes as important as building new habits
Will this make me the best version of myself or a worse version?
Setting order in your life by way of routine has a dramatically generalizing impact. When you set a specific time each day for exercise, study, prayer or the like. You begin fortifying the characteristics that ground you when tempted.
Just say less more often.
Biting your tongue. You should only speak if you have something to add. So, say less more often.
Delegate things that can easily be done by someone else.
Action is required to get results.
We use one task as an excuse for not doing another one.
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