Conant: Leaders must define core convictions before facing high-pressure decisions
Doug Conant · #118 Doug Conant: Leadership With Integrity · Aug 24, 2021 · at 3:45
Former Campbell Soup CEO Doug Conant reflects on navigating corporate pressure during the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout in the late 1980s.
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“I believe you've got to tend to your own foundation so that when you get put in the thick of thick things and having to make tough decisions about people and performance and every day where you're pushed to the edge, You have to be incredibly well anchored and have the courage of your convictions. It's hard to have the courage of your convictions if you don't know what your convictions are.”
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