How can you be tough-minded with standards and tender-hearted with people? How can you foster openness in the workplace? And how does this build a successful company? In this episode, Doug Conant, NYT bestselling author and former CEO of Campbell Soup Company, answers these questions and so much more.

What You’ll Learn:

• The acronym: BANI, and how it describes our modern world.
• Why the best leaders dig deep to find their principles and relentlessly stick to them
• Conant’s Theory of Relativity.
• When and how to declare your principles
• How and why to build trust before you need it.
• What the future of leadership looks like.

Who is Doug?

Doug Conant is the only Fortune 500 CEO who is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. He’s a top 50 leadership innovator, a top 100 leadership speaker, and one of the most influential authors in the world. With a 45 year career defined by achieving high performance through an intentional commitment to studying, Doug is now sharing the tenants of leadership that work.

He is the founder and CEO of Conant leadership, former President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company, former president of Nabisco Foods, and former chairman of Avon products. Corporate boards Dough has served on, include those of Amerisource, Bergen, and RHR International. His latest Wall Street Journal bestselling book, co-authored with Amy Federman is The Blueprint: Six Practical Strategies to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights.

Mentions:

Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy Edmondson https://www.amazon.ca/Right-Kind-Wrong-Science-Failing/dp/1982195061

The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights by Doug Conant

The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights: Conant, Douglas R.: 9781119560029: Amazon.com: Books

TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments by Doug Conant

https://www.amazon.com/TouchPoints-Creating-Powerful-Leadership-Connections/dp/B08BZVQLWY/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=jXdbI&content-id=amzn1.sym.ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_p=ed85217c-14c9-4aa0-b248-e47393e2ce12&pf_rd_r=145-0167167-1582938&pd_rd_wg=SY2WR&pd_rd_r=70e87c62-b218-4422-85b4-91081db2a48c&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougconant/

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