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Leading Giants

A Leader's Guide to Maximum Influence

Published by Matt Holt Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

No matter your position or industry, Leading Giants offers proven strategies that will rapidly expand your influence to get you the results you want.

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 $1 billion 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 you:
  • 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.

About The Author

Dave Durand is an accomplished leader and executive, founding and leading Best Version Media, the largest company of its kind. With over 1,300 publications and sports websites, BVM has over 20 million monthly readers and has a presence in every state and province in North America. He is also a bestselling author, a Hall of Fame business award winner, and has a national radio following.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Matt Holt Books (February 4, 2025)
  • Length: 272 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781637746349

Raves and Reviews

“At 19 years old, my life changed forever when I was mentored by a true leader—a Giant, someone who had strength of character beyond the norm, was committed to self-mastery, and had developed extraordinary leadership abilities that enabled him to bring out the best in every person he led. In Leading Giants, Dave Durand will show you how to become that type of leader—a Giant who is capable of leading other Giants.”
—Hal Elrod, International Bestselling Author, The Miracle Morning, Updated and Expanded Edition

“This book provides powerful and practical advice relevant to the challenges facing leaders in today’s culture. Leading Giants covers the landscape of topics from value-based leadership to successfully building a healthy culture for your team and much more. It will not disappoint.”
—Thomas S. Monaghan, Founder, Domino’s Pizza and Ave Maria University

“Dave Durand provides profound insights grounded in timeless principles that can transform your everyday life. His book is a recipe for becoming an exceptional leader and, more importantly, a guide to becoming a truly magnanimous person.”
—Kevin O’Brien, CEO, Best Version Media

“Dave Durand not only lays out a plan to grow and lead your organization, but also provides a road map to leading yourself. Leading Giants is an approachable book with big ideas.”
—Rich Galgano, Founder and CEO, Windy City Wire, and Managing Director, Carefree Capital

Leading Giants moves past the Pollyanna approach used by many of today’s ‘influencers’ and dives way into the core of true leadership. You can’t give what you don’t have. Dave shows you how to be the person worthy of leading true Giants. You’ve got to be a Giant to lead Giants.”
—Joe Calloway, Author, Becoming a Category of One

“In Leading Giants, Dave Durand offers counterintuitive leadership lessons based on his experiences founding, growing, and selling several companies. If you're a leader who wants to scale profit and impact—and actually enjoy the journey—this book is for you."
—Matt Tenney, Founder, PeopleThriver, and Bestselling Author, Inspire Greatness

“Dave Durand is a Giant amongst Giants. His advice, driven by years of successful leadership, exemplifies the modern executive who is more of a listener and consensus builder than the classic executive dictator of years gone by. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to build and sustain an inclusive and results-oriented organization.”
—Jeff Drazan, Managing Partner, Bertram Capital

“As Dave Durand, a successful entrepreneur and business builder, writes, ‘most leaders are merely ineffective managers in a position of authority.’ To avoid this outcome, use Dave's time-proven template, developed over 35 years, for how leaders must behave to maximize their impact on the organizations they oversee . . . Dave lives by a well-defined system of self-management techniques that he credits with allowing him to reach the pinnacle of success”
—Reed Phillips, CEO, Oaklins

“At 19 years old, my life changed forever when I was mentored by a true leader—a Giant, someone who had strength of character beyond the norm, was committed to self-mastery, and had developed extraordinary leadership abilities that enabled him to bring out the best in every person he led. In Leading Giants, Dave Durand will show you how to become that type of leader—a Giant who is capable of leading other Giants.”
—Hal Elrod, International Bestselling Author, The Miracle Morning, Updated and Expanded Edition

“This book provides powerful and practical advice relevant to the challenges facing leaders in today’s culture. Leading Giants covers the landscape of topics from value-based leadership to successfully building a healthy culture for your team and much more. It will not disappoint.”
—Thomas S. Monaghan, Founder, Domino’s Pizza and Ave Maria University

“Dave Durand provides profound insights grounded in timeless principles that can transform your everyday life. His book is a recipe for becoming an exceptional leader and, more importantly, a guide to becoming a truly magnanimous person.”
—Kevin O’Brien, CEO, Best Version Media

“Dave Durand not only lays out a plan to grow and lead your organization, but also provides a road map to leading yourself. Leading Giants is an approachable book with big ideas.”
—Rich Galgano, Founder and CEO, Windy City Wire, and Managing Director, Carefree Capital

Leading Giants moves past the Pollyanna approach used by many of today’s ‘influencers’ and dives way into the core of true leadership. You can’t give what you don’t have. Dave shows you how to be the person worthy of leading true Giants. You’ve got to be a Giant to lead Giants.”
—Joe Calloway, Author, Becoming a Category of One

“In Leading Giants, Dave Durand offers counterintuitive leadership lessons based on his experiences founding, growing, and selling several companies. If you're a leader who wants to scale profit and impact—and actually enjoy the journey—this book is for you."
—Matt Tenney, Founder, PeopleThriver, and Bestselling Author, Inspire Greatness

“Dave Durand is a Giant amongst Giants. His advice, driven by years of successful leadership, exemplifies the modern executive who is more of a listener and consensus builder than the classic executive dictator of years gone by. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to build and sustain an inclusive and results-oriented organization.”
—Jeff Drazan, Managing Partner, Bertram Capital

“As Dave Durand, a successful entrepreneur and business builder, writes, ‘most leaders are merely ineffective managers in a position of authority.’ To avoid this outcome, use Dave's time-proven template, developed over 35 years, for how leaders must behave to maximize their impact on the organizations they oversee . . . Dave lives by a well-defined system of self-management techniques that he credits with allowing him to reach the pinnacle of success”
—Reed Phillips, CEO, Oaklins

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