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Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
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This post was originally published June, 2015 and most recently updated March, 2024.
Now more than ever, the very first job of a leader is to inspire trust. In a chaotic and complex world, stakeholders look for credibility and stability in their leaders—a port in the storm. So trust is the single most essential element to our ability to deliver extraordinary results in an enduring way.
Trust leads to high-performance because it enables an organization to work as it should; it’s the first defense against dysfunction and the first step towards delivering better o ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
3w ago
At ConantLeadership, we’re committed to lifelong learning and continuous improvement. In service to your leadership growth, each month we curate the Leadership That Works Newsletter, a digest of timely resources from around the web. We prepare this resource in order to:
Share actionable advice from top leadership luminaries
Celebrate a range of viewpoints (inclusion is not an endorsement)
Contextualize workplace trends through a leadership lens
Illuminate cultural recalibrations in the world of work
Support your personal development in life, leadership, and beyond
In this month’s L ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
2M ago
At ConantLeadership, we’re committed to lifelong learning and continuous improvement. In service to your leadership growth, each month we curate the Leadership That Works Newsletter, a digest of timely resources from around the web. We prepare this resource in order to:
Share actionable advice from top leadership luminaries
Celebrate a range of viewpoints (inclusion is not an endorsement)
Contextualize workplace trends through a leadership lens
Illuminate cultural recalibrations in the world of work
Support your personal development in life, leadership, and beyond
In this month’s L ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
2M ago
Two Leadership Experts Say the Path to Courage Starts with Taking “Just One Step” Closer to Other People
At ConantLeadership’s most recent BLUEPRINT Leadership Summit—a bi-annual virtual meeting of top leadership luminaries—Debra Benton (Founder and President of Benton Management Resources and bestselling author of How to Think Like a CEO) spoke with Doug Conant (Founder of ConantLeadership, former CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and bestselling author of The Blueprint and TouchPoints) about how to challenge your assumptions, lead with courage, and take small steps that push you out of your comf ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
3M ago
At ConantLeadership, we’re committed to lifelong learning and continuous improvement. In service to your leadership growth, each month we curate the Leadership That Works Newsletter, a digest of timely resources from around the web. We prepare this resource in order to:
Share actionable advice from top leadership luminaries
Celebrate a range of viewpoints (inclusion is not an endorsement)
Contextualize workplace trends through a leadership lens
Illuminate cultural recalibrations in the world of work
Support your personal development in life, leadership, and beyond
In this month’s L ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
4M ago
At ConantLeadership, we’re committed to lifelong learning and continuous improvement. In service to your leadership growth, each month we curate the Leadership That Works Newsletter, a digest of timely resources from around the web. We prepare this resource in order to:
Share actionable advice from top leadership luminaries
Celebrate a range of viewpoints (inclusion is not an endorsement)
Contextualize workplace trends through a leadership lens
Illuminate cultural recalibrations in the world of work
Support your personal development in life, leadership, and beyond
In this month’s L ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
5M ago
At ConantLeadership, we’re committed to lifelong learning and continuous improvement. In service to your leadership growth, each month we curate the Leadership That Works Newsletter, a digest of timely resources from around the web. We prepare this resource in order to:
Share actionable advice from top leadership luminaries
Celebrate a range of viewpoints (inclusion is not an endorsement)
Contextualize workplace trends through a leadership lens
Illuminate cultural recalibrations in the world of work
Support your personal development in life, leadership, and beyond
In this month’s L ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
5M ago
Last month, at ConantLeadership’s 6th biannual BLUEPRINT Leadership Summit—a virtual meeting of the top leadership luminaries in the world—Jean-Philippe Courtois (Executive Vice President and President, National Transformation Partnerships at Microsoft and host of the Positive Leadership podcast) spoke with Doug Conant (Founder of ConantLeadership, former CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and bestselling author of The Blueprint and TouchPoints) about the power of courageous leadership in the modern age.
Enjoy the following key tips and takeaways from their conversation in this blog ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
6M ago
At ConantLeadership, we’re committed to lifelong learning and continuous improvement. In service to your leadership growth, each month we curate the Leadership That Works Newsletter, a digest of timely resources from around the web. We prepare this resource in order to:
Share actionable advice from top leadership luminaries
Celebrate a range of viewpoints (inclusion is not an endorsement)
Contextualize workplace trends through a leadership lens
Illuminate cultural recalibrations in the world of work
Support your personal development in life, leadership, and beyond
In this month’s L ..read more
Conant Leadership | Leadership That Works
6M ago
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” — Dr. Maya Angelou, American poet and civil rights activist
Note: This blog post on why leaders must learn to be brave is adapted from the “Courage” chapter in The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights.
In the early 1990s, anyone looking at my life from the outside would say things were going well. I had a good job as Director of Strategy at Kraft. I was working for a man I admired, the president of Kraft, Jim Kilts. And I was doing a soli ..read more