Lead By Greatness by David Lapin - Book review

Lead By Greatness

How Character Can Power Your Success

By: David Lapin

Published: February 3, 2012
Format: Paperback, 360 pages
ISBN-10: 0983467706
ISBN-13: 978-0983467700
Publisher: Avoda Books













"Greatness is not a skill set, but a way of being that expresses a person's sense of destiny and purpose. When great people lead with a sense of destiny and purpose, they become great leaders", writes rabbi, business strategist, and CEO of Lapin Consulting International, Inc., David Lapin, in his insightful and inspirational book Lead By Greatness: How Character Can Power Your Success. The author describes how exceptional leaders establish and live by their authenticity, core beliefs, and values.

David Lapin understands that leadership requires exceptional skills to establish a vision, inspire others to greatness, spark creativity, and build successful organizations. The author provides evidence, uncovered through his experience and research, that a leader's stature and reputation, are more important indicators of inspiration, than job titles or status. To transcend the ordinary level of leadership and attain greatness, David Lapin posits that the leader must develop a higher purpose, and a sense of overarching destiny. Instead of considering of the leader as what they are, David Lapin takes the bold step of considering a leader as why they are.



David Lapin (photo left) recognizes that becoming a leader who demonstrates greatness of character requires unlocking what he calls your "Spiritual Fingerprint" and your "Personal Purpose". The author shares how these two crucial characteristics will turn the key to open wide the company's corporate soul. That organizational soul includes a blending of spirit, culture, personality, and core values. These principles are the true uniqueness of the firm, and are not duplicated anywhere else. They form the basis of the organizations most fundamental competitive advantage.

To unlock the leadership traits, seen through the lens of the Spiritual Fingerprint and the Personal Purpose, the leader must establish higher purpose and a sense of destiny. With that transcendence in place, the leader can develop and enrich the following key traits:

* Authenticity
* Destiny
* Mastery
* Humility
* Vulnerability
* Generosity
* Awareness
* Wisdom

For me, the power of the book is how David Lapin combines a powerful message of the inspirational dynamic of the human spirit, with proven techniques for enhancing leadership skills. The author makes the transformational insight of connecting greatness of character, with business achievement, and the organizational profitability. David Lapin offers a unique perspective on leadership through his experience as both a spiritual teacher and as an effective executive.

David Lapin demonstrates clearly the critical importance of values, ethics, and a sense of spiritual purpose to leadership, the inspiring of others, and to the success of the organization. At a time when values and principles are lacking or treated with disdain in many companies, David Lapin offers an alternative and a better way. Not only is the spiritual path more personally rewarding, but is a more effective business plan as well. The author provides the key insight that the values driven team and organization has within them an unbeatable competitive advantage.

I highly recommend the transformational and passionate book Lead By Greatness: How Character Can Power Your Success by David Lapin, to anyone seeking to be more than simply a leader, but one who wants to unlock their inner spiritual sense of greatness in themselves and others. This deeply profound book will change you forever, and alter your entire perception of leadership, greatness, and of the need for a sense of a higher purpose.

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